The Union Canal

Lower Gilmore Place

Fountainbridge

Photo 1.

The site of demolished garages on the south bank of the canal  -  October 2004

Fountainbridge  -  Union Canal  -  The site of old garages on the south bank

©  Peter Stubbs    peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk                                                                           Photographed 1pm.  12 October 2004

Photo 2.

The same scene as above, seven years later  -  July 2011

Fountainbridge  -  Union Canal  -  The site of old garages on the south bank

©  Peter Stubbs    peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk                                                                                           Photographed July 9, 2011

 

Fountainbridge

The Union Canal

2004

Photo 1

On the southern side of the Union Canal opposite the Scottish & Newcastle Brewery at Fountainbridge was a row of low garages.   These were used as car repair workshops until they were demolished in late summer 2004. 

This photo shows all that remained of the site in mid-October 2004.

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Fountainbridge  -  Union Canal  -  The site of old garages on the south bank ©

 

Fountainbridge

The Union Canal

2011

Photo 2

Photo 2 above shows how this bank of the canal had been developed by 2011.  This photo was taken on 9 July 2011, the day of the Union Canal Raft Race.

 

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