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Fascinating photos.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/feb/23/vintage-photographs-edinburgh-in-pictures-robert-blomfield-photography
Notice how the streets have always been full of cars and children kept safely away and not allowed out on their own </sarcasm>
More Edinburgh photos (and more) in the video on this page -
Interesting sign in one of the streets (Salisbury street I think)
"CHILDRENS PLAYGROUND - NO VEHICLES PLEASE 4PM TILL SUNDOWN"
Great to see these. The Edinburgh I was born into (at least the later photos)...
I went to the exhibition of his photos at the City Art Centre (galleries - remember those?) a few years back and it was fascinating. Hours spent figuring out where each photo was taken and what's there now.
@ARobComp - that sign is in a couple of the pictures. Clearly a common thing...
Notable also the dreadful air pollution indoors and out and the low BMI of the majority of subjects.
“that sign is in a couple of the pictures“
Play street signs in Edinburgh into the 80s
Hard to do with all the parked cars and probably neither adhered to or enforced.
@Greenroofer, nicotine and tannin work together to suppress appetite...
@chdot "Play street signs in Edinburgh into the 80s" -
still a sign for at least one in 2019, in Thorntree Street, albeit very faded.
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13487#post-166547
This is "Arthur Street"
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/feb/23/vintage-photographs-edinburgh-in-pictures-robert-blomfield-photography#img-5
but it looks a lot steeper than this Arthur Street...
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Arthur+St,+Edinburgh/@55.9654503,-3.1773293,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x4887b80a660819e3:0x4e60f6886ee10724!8m2!3d55.9651823!4d-3.1776267
Does anyone have an idea where the photo was taken?
@fimm - I think it's roughly where New Arthur Place is now, off the Pleasance. The area between there and Brown Street was redeveloped in (I think) the 70s.
The Salisbury Street mentioned above was in between Brown St and Arthur St.
That one is my favourite of his photos
That section down from the Pleasance to Dumbiedykes was/is very steep.?
I really love the photo of students in Teviot Row - obviously this was the place to go for a cigarette and a coffee in the 1960s.
Looks like the Union didn't waste money on fripperies like heating in those days - despite it being indoors, everyone has still kept their big coats on.
(Also looks like the guy on the far right has brought his bike pump in with him!)
@aken yes the Union was a Smokey old place but in this instance all smoke and no fire.
In the mid 80s I often frequented Bewleys in Dublin. The west Moreland street branch had a nice red velvet loving seat you could hide away all day in and the waitresses were like your kindly mum or auntie and looked after you and let you SkIneos there all afternoon just as you were reading a book,
Was Smokey but mostly as had coal fire for the heat
was going to start a new thread, but this seems apt:
"Set children free: are playgrounds a form of incarceration?"
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