Fraser Avenue

Boswall Drive

1920s

This view looks to the east along Fraser Avenue to the junction where it meets  Granton Road, close to Granton Road station (now closed).

History

The Fraser estate was built in the 1920s.  Fraser Avenue and other roads on the estate were given their names in October 1926.
[History and Derivation of Edinburgh Street Names: Edinburgh Corporation City Engineers Dept, 1975]

This photo seems likely to have been taken shortly after the houses were built.  This scene looks rather bare, with only one parked vehicle in the street.

The attractive gas lamp posts were replaced  many years ago by taller lamp posts for electric lights.  The grass strip along beside the pavement on each side of the road has been removed to provide wider pavements.

The Postcard

The publisher of this postcard and the photographer are not named, and the card has not been sent through the post.  There were also other cards in and around the district in this series, including one of Boswall Drive:

Boswall Drive

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