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Art Deco Architecture in Edinburgh (Help Needed)

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  • Started 12 years ago by Wilmington's Cow
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  1. Arellcat
    Moderator

    Looks good, Anth!

    I've discovered a whole host of treasures in Granton. While the old Embassy cinema has been gone for over 30 years, there are other outcrops of Art Deco on Boswall Parkway, on West Granton Road and again here and possibly also the Anchor Inn Roadhouse, and don't forget the massive brick Art Deco stylings of Royston Mains Green.

    Closer to CCE catchment is the former Longmore Hospital Nurses' Home, a bit late for the muscular Art Deco style because it was designed in 1938 but not completed until 1947.

    All now added to the map.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  2. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Everyone in this thread will be getting into the acknowledgements section, but especially Arellcat.... ;)

    Posted 12 years ago #

  3. steveo
    Member

    Looks pretty slick anth.
    If you can't get a publisher there are other options. An iPad app done right would look like a coffee table book, self publishing isn't as hard as it used to be.

    This chap (Al Humphreys) talks about it in one of his blogs.

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  4. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Yeah, was pondering self-publishing if the publisher doesn't work out. Hadn't even thought of the app aspect! I'm sure some people would take it for, say, £1.99!

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  5. steveo
    Member

    Can't imagine its hard to convert the DTP files to something that an iPad or android tablet can display.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  6. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Link to a map. Get listed on VisitScotland or the like - I'm getting more app ideas for the city now as well (just thinking about the information I look for when I go places).

    Steveo, yer a genius!

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  7. Arellcat
    Moderator

    I really never expected we'd see quite so many examples of Art Deco. But on my way home from work today I came across yet another!

    Check out the line of three pairs of semis on Morningside Drive. The PVC windows aren't exactly period, but they're very tastefully done.

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  8. steveo
    Member

    Didn't realise lothian house has/had a pool in the basement. Did you ever find a way in?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  9. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Not yet. Tried contacting some maintenance company, but no dice. But where there's a will...

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  10. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Yesterday lunchtime I wandered to Angle Park Terrace to get some shots of what is now a furniture store. The sun obligingly appeared just as I got there. Hoping for similar sun-luck at lunchtime heading to pick Mel up from work (cast comes off today! woo hoo!) so I can grab some shots of the Tinto Place/Bonnington Court flats that are near her office.

    Project is picking up pace now. Really really keen on the app idea, and figure I can launch with about 30 buildings (issuing updates thereafter as I get more shots). The publishers will take at least 2 months to review and decide and so on, so I can be up and running before then and try to use it as a lever (numbers of downloads which will clearly run into the millions).

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  11. chdot
    Admin

    Think about iBooks Author.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  12. steveo
    Member

    Careful with that, I've read there are some interesting licence clauses in there.

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  13. chdot
    Admin

    "I've read there are some interesting licence clauses"

    There certainly were when first launched. Then Apple realised they were being over the top/possibly illegal.

    They were modified a bit. Still the case (I think) that if you want to make money from a book you've created using iBooks Author you have to sell via iBookstore.

    Some people will be OK with this, some won't.

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  14. SRD
    Moderator

    It does suggest that you might not want to launch an app before talking to publishers, which was going to be my suggestion anyway. Not my sector of the market, but I suspect there is a fine line between 'look this is popular' and 'content previously published elsewhere and therefore not of interest'? perhaps they don't care as long as they still think they can make enough money off it. Would be good to talk to someone who has managed to turn a blog into a book (or similar), and see what they say.

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  15. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Tis why I'm actually looking at 'app' rather than 'iBook'. The app is a 'check things out on the map on the move to go and look at things' kinda toy; the book is a 'coffee table ooh pretty pictures' thing.

    Cyclepedia exists in, and does well in, both.

    Speaking to a 'blog to author' person might be instructive, although it's a different type of thing again/different angle for publishers.

    I have my annually updated Writers' and Artists' Yearbook as my constant reference!

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  16. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Plotted a ride round 26 of the buildings I've not got shots of yet for the May Day holiday. 38 miles or so, which will take up the morning nicely, leaving the afternoon for birding. Bike wins hard!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  17. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Right, the weather has me grabbing photos when I can again. Got Salisbury Heights this morning (Canmore Link). Was riding down the street and turned into the driveway. As I was snapping away I suddenly realised the gates behind me were automatic...

    Rode round the back of the building, fortunately there's an 'exit' gate on the other side with a wee button to press to get out.

    Sun wasn't in the right position for the Dominion - may grab that going home, and get sunnier shots of the Causewayside Garage (if it's still sunny). Time to start knocking these off, Friday morning if it's sunny I'm going for an early wander in the city after these!

    Posted 11 years ago #

  18. BikeFan
    Member

    Happy to add some more . . .

    Two blocks of four on Roseburn Street down by the rugby ground - they've lost the Art Deco look since the metal-framed oblong windows were taken out.

    Likewise a very similar block on the corner of Mountcastle Crescent and Drive North.

    And not too far from that - the Wilson Memorial Church on Portobello Road

    Posted 11 years ago #

  19. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    I pass those Mountcastle Houses most days - for it all being built up in the 30s there aren't too many striking deco architecture examples like that. I think initially I'm going to limit things to commercial/quasi commercial buildings. Although there have been some stunning residential examples offered so far.

    Hmmmm, might take a spin by the church sometime soon - had forgotten that was there!

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  20. BikeFan
    Member

    If the street's quiet when you're going past the Mountcastle ones sometime, could you check out the name plate/s of the two on the right of the block - kid on you're delivering leaflets or somesuch ;o)

    I'm sure the nameplate had A Bell on it, positioned just beside the bellpush. Always had a giggle about that.

    I know, an infantile sense of humour is hard to grow out of - but I'm trying my best.

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  21. Claggy Cog
    Member

    Strictly speaking Longmore Hospital is not Art Deco but more Art Nouveau if you look at the dates of the architects drawings. The original plans most definitely put it in the latter era being the end of the 1800's, and the nurses flats in 1901.

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  22. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    The nurses' flats' Listed Building registration reckons 1938...

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  23. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Anyway, investigations pending on that, today's wander took me past the Poundstretcher(?) on South Bridge, and Benson's Beds down in Gorgie. Back to building up the photos.

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  24. BikeFan
    Member

    I don't know if you want to consider the North Merchiston Boys Club building in Watson Crescent. The club was established in 1921 but doesn't say when the current building was built. Story from a while ago was that when the bowling greens were taken out of Harrison Park, the club was going to be rebuilt on that land and the current building demolished with new flats in it's place. Don't know if we're lucky that it's still there or not.

    Also tried to find some pics of the old Ferranti building at Crewe Toll, but no real luck.

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  25. alibali
    Member

    Anth, have you seen the Longstone Bus garage recently? It's not finished yet, but a refurbishment is under way. Looks good so far...

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  26. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Yeah, I'd heard it was being refurbished - I'll be there when it's all shiny!


    Salisbury Heights Angle by blackpuddinonnabike, on Flickr


    South Bridge Poundstretcher Detail by blackpuddinonnabike, on Flickr


    Gorgie Roxy Cinema by blackpuddinonnabike, on Flickr

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  27. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Snapped Wilson Memorial this morning - thanks for the reminder BikeFan!

    Built in 1933 following a merger of one Christian branch with another, some of the congregation being unhappy about it and setting off on their own (originally using the masonic lodge in Porty for their get-togethers). Nice building, category B listed.

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  28. kaputnik
    Moderator

    How about Bristo Baptist Church (not at Bristo) Built 1933-1935 in a modernist Dutch-inspired style. Surely the Humanist-style cast sign qualifies it? Or perhaps the windows, formed from an array of small, square glass panes. I don't think there's anything else like it in Edinburgh.

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  29. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Wilsons Memorial


    Wilson Memorial Church by blackpuddinonnabike, on Flickr

    Hmmm, Bristo Baptist is an interesting one - used to walk past that all time on lunchtime walks from old office...

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  30. chdot
    Admin

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    Posted 11 years ago #

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