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Marine Gardens

Portobello

Somali Village

The Somali Village

Marine Gardens, Portobello  -  1910

Valentine Postcard  -  The Somali Village at Portobello Marine Gardens, 1910

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Marine Gardens

Portobello

Scottish National Exhibition

Marine Gardens, Portobello, were created in 1909 using many of the buildings that had formed the Scottish National Exhibition at Saughton Park in 1908.

The Scottish National Exhibition in 1908 included a Senegalese village.  Portobello's Marine Gardens included a Somali Village, pictured above in 1910.

Postcard

This card was published by Valentine.  It has not been sent through the post.

 

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