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Looking west along Princes Street from the junction with Waverley Bridge |
© Indiana University, Charles W Cushman Collection Archive ID: P15828
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Looking West along Princes Street |
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1961 This photo was taken on Kodachrome film by amateur photographer, Charles W Cushman (1896-1972) from the USA during his visit to Edinburgh in 1961. The photo was taken on June 19, 1961, looking to the west along Princes Street from the junction of Princes Street and South Saint Andrew Street. A policeman is on points duty directing three of the large batch of acquired about six years earlier to replace Edinburgh's trams. The buses are Leyland PD2/20s with Metro Cammell bodies. A milk float is heading to the west along Princes Street towards the monument to Sir Walter Scott, and a coach is turning left into Waverley Bridge towards the vehicle entrance to Waverley Railway Station. |
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Views of Princes Street This is one of many views looking to the west along Princes Street. |
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Looking West along Princes Street |
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Thank you to Donald Grant, Penicuik, Midlothian, who wrote: |
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Maitland Radio "The red van that is heading west along Princes Street belonged to a company called Maitland Radio. They were radio and TV retailers and this was one of the repair engineers' vans based at their workshops in Gayfield Place Lane. They had the shop immediately up from entrance to the Playhouse which I think is now either the box office or it may be a pub. I'm not sure which. |
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House of Clydesdale and James Scott In the early 1970s Maitland Radio were taken over by 'House of Clydesdale', another electrical retailer who had shops all over Scotland and several in Edinburgh. They traded under the Clydesdale name and also James Scott They had a shop trading under the Scott name at Greenside Place just down from the Playhouse on the corner of Greenside Place Lane. That is now a pub. |
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Donald Grant, Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland: April 23, 2008 |