Leith Docks

 and

 Leith Harbour

Early Photographs

 

Photographs

19th Century

Leith Inner Harbour - stereo view by Thomas Vernon Begbie ©

Thomas Begbie
 Leith Inner Harbour

Photograph in Edinburgh Calotype Club album - Volume 2, Page 77 - Leith Harbour ©

Edinburgh Calotype Club
 James Francis Montgomery?

Leith Harbour

 Stereoscopic View of Leith Docks - Photographer unknown ©

Unknown Photographer

Leith Docks

 The right hand picture from a stereo pair - View of Leith Docks - Photographer unknown ©

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 Stereoscopic View - Leith Docks re-masting - 1865 ©

Unknown Photographer

Leith Docks re-masting  -  1865

The right-hand picture from a stereo pair - Leith Docks re-masting - 1865 ©

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Photographs

20th Century

WR & S - Photograph from the early-1900s - Leith Docks Entrance ©

Leith Docks Entrance

    Sailing ship at Leith Harbour - Photograph in Edinburgh Official Guide, 1923 ©

Leith Harbour - 1923

   Leith Docks - Photograph in Edinburgh Official Guide, 1923 ©

Leith Docks  -  1923

   Unloading Vessels at Leith Docks - 1906 ©

Unknown Photographer

Leith Docks

Unloading Vessels at Leith Docks - 1906 - zoom-in ©

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Leith Docks

     Leith Harbour, West Pier - Photograph of Joe Moracen in 1936. ©

1936

West Pier  -  1936

     The Training Ship, TS Dolphin at West Old Dock, Leith ©

c.1950?

TS Dolphin

©

1956

HMS Cossack arrives at
Imperial Dock

Launch of MV Kaitoa from Henry Robb's Yard at Leith Docks in February 1956 ©

1956

Henry Robbs Yard
Launch of MV Kaitoa

Three Training Ships at Leith Docks ©

Three Training Ships

Leith Docks - Storage tanks and Lorry ©

Around 1961

Storage Tanks and lorry

1st Leith Boys' Brigade Company marching through Leith Docks ©

1st Leith Boys' Brigade Company
marching through Leith Docks

   ©

c.1961

Ben Line ship, Benhiant

M Gulfoss at Copenhagen Harbour, 1971 ©

1971

MS Gullfoss at Copenhagen Harbour

one of the ships that sailed to Leith Docks

Leith Docks - SAI chemical works - late-1970s ©

Late-1970s

SAI Fertiliser Plant

Leith Docks - Chancelot Mill, Caledonia Mill and Henry Robb Shipyard - late-1970s ©

Late-1970s

Mills in the Background

Leith Docks - Yard of Cable Reels - Grampian House and Cairngorm House, Lindsay Rod, are in the background - mid-1970s ©

Late-1970s

Flats in the Background

 

 

 

 

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