East Cottages
Lower Granton Road |
Lower Granton Road
Beside the Firth of Forth

©
Reproduced with acknowledgement to the
National Tramway Museum, Crich, Derbyshire, England
Lower
Granton Road |
The View
The cottages on the right-hand side of
the road are 'East Cottages', built in the 19th century, I
believe to house the workers who were building Granton Harbour
in the 1830s.
On the left-hand side of the road, out
of picture, is a railway embankment, and beyond that, the
Firth of Forth. A tram and horse and cart are both
approaching, heading towards Granton Square.
The children in the foreground are
gathered around the shop advertising:
Agent
for
Pullars
Cleaners
Perth
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Date?
I don't know the publisher of this post
card. I have only seen the front of the card.
Looking at the back of
this card might reveal who the publisher was.
When might this photo have been taken?
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Reply
1.
David King
Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland |
Thank you to
David King who wrote: |
1909-20
"We also
have a copy of this postcard on this
trams page of our 'Granton History Group' web site. On
that page we described the picture as having been taken around
the time of the First World War.
©
This was based
on:
- the tram
being there, at all - so it must have been 1909 or later.
- open-top
car so probably before early-1920s
- the tram
being apparently painted in Leith Corporation colours (white
lower on the body-side than Edinburgh colours) so the photo
would have been before about 1920.
David King, Trinity, Edinburgh:
October 25, 2010 |
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