View from Holyrood Park  -  October 2004

Edinburgh Castle

and

Dumbiedykes

View from Holyrood Park  -  October 2004

Edinburgh Castle and Dumbiedykes

This photograph was taken from the Radical Road in Holyrood Park, looking west towards Edinburgh Castle on the skyline on a fine day in October 2004, two days after the Queen officially opened the new Scottish Parliament building, nearby.

Also on the skyline are:

-  LEFT OF THE CASTLE:  The dome of the McEwan Hall.

-  RIGHT OF THE CASTLE:  The tall steeple of the Hub (Tolbooth St John's Church)
The steeple of St Giles Church (in the Royal Mile)
The dome of the Bank of Scotland (The Mound).

Please click the image below to see more photographs of the Dumbiedykes area:

1959

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The old houses in Dumbiedykes were demolished around 1963 and the new houses seen in the photograph above were  built around 1968.

Calton Jail