Powderhall

 

Powderhall Refuse Depôt

2006

Looking to the west along Broughton Road - Powderhall Incinerator, built 1893 ©

Looking west

Broughton Road

Looking to the east along Broughton Road - Powderhall Incinerator, built 1893 ©

Looking east

Broughton Road

Looking across Broughton Road to the Powderhall Incinerators, built 1970 and 1893 ©

1970 and 1893 Incinerators

Looking across Broughton Road to the Powderhall Incinerator, built 1970 ©

1970 Incinerator

 

Industry

Edinburgh at Work - Laing's Foundry at Powderhall , Edinburgh ©

Charles Laing & Sons

Duncan's Chocolate Factory - Beaverhall Road, Edinburgh, 1991 - a worker ©

Duncan's Chocolates

Edinburgh at Work - Waterston's sealing wax works at Powderhall, Edinburgh - 1994 ©

George Waterston

 Alexander McLennan with his hammer, in the middle of his blacksmiths workshop at Powderhall ©

Alexander McLennan

 

Antony Gormley Statue

in the Water of Leith at Powderhall

One of the live-size cast iron figures in the artwork '6 Times' by Antony Gormley. The statues are sited, most in the Water of Leith, between the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and Leith Docks ©

 

Recollections of Powderhall

 Around Edinburgh

 

 

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