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Images From 2016. Part Two.

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Bee, Bluebells, Butterfly, Daffodils, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Cemetery, flowers, Headstones, Knapweed, Orange-Tip, Owl, Red lady, Robin, Tawny Owl, Warriston, Warriston Cemetery, Windflower

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Robin Singing.
Red Lady, White Flowers.
Daffodil.
Orange-Tip Butterfly (male) and Bluebells.
Tawny Owl.
West Path.
Leaf, Fly, Droplets.
Daffs by the steps.
Bee and Knapweed?

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Images From 2016. Part One.

07 Sunday Feb 2021

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Bee, Bluebells, Buttercups, Daffodils, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Cemetery, flowers, Grey Squirrel, Headstones, Mallard, Owl, Red Admiral, Robin, Squirrel, Tawny Owl, Trees, Warriston, Warriston Cemetery, Wren

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Images From 2015. Part Two.

02 Tuesday Feb 2021

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Bee, Bluebells, Butterfly, Dragonfly, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Cemetery, Insects, Poppy, Snowdrops, Warriston, Warriston Cemetery

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Images From 2015. Part One.

31 Sunday Jan 2021

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Bee, Birds, Bluebells, Cemetery, Daffodils, Edinburgh, Foxglove, Gravestones, Snowdrops, Squirrel, Trees, Warriston, Warriston Cemetery, Wild Flowers, Woodpecker, Wren

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November 2020. Around the cemetery.

29 Friday Jan 2021

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Photographs provided by Caroline Gerard, Malena Astrom and Sheila Masson.

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Aerial photograph, 1937.

17 Sunday May 2020

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Here is a section of an aerial photograph taken in 1937 and found on the ‘Britain From Above’ website. It includes the south eastern part of Warriston cemetery. Other main points include Powderhall stadium, probably most known for greyhound racing and motorcycle speedway but also for athletics and football. Eric Liddell, portrayed in the Chariots of Fire film, trained there in 1920. It was the original ground of Edinburgh City Football Club and it also hosted some celebrity football matches. The kennels can be seen to the left and that is where a branch of B&Q, the home and garden supply business, stood before the ground was redeveloped as housing. Parts of the adjacent area were taken up by various industries including W. and M. Duncan’s Regent Confectionary Works (commonly known as Duncan’s Chocolate Factory), J. G. Waterston’s Logie Green Printing Works which was converted to residential units, and John McKinnell’s Dunedin Cigarette Factory that produced Lorraine Cigarettes and Clan Tobacco. Housing construction is seen in progress on Warriston Road between an earlier version of St Mark’s Bridge and what is now St Mark’s Park with many (long since gone) allotment plots on the slopes between and to the side of those partly-built houses and the Water of Leith flowing parallel with the stadium. On the left of St Mark’s Bridge you can see where the ford was traversed before any bridge was constructed in that position.

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1937 aerial

In the cemetery itself you can see where the railway was built through the grounds consequently dividing the site. An underpass was created to link both parts of the burial grounds with the railway running over that. The company was the Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway. In this photo, several wagons can be made out on the tracks. This part of the railway was built in 1845, only a couple of years after the cemetery was opened, and the track closed in the 1950s, subsequently turned into a walkway/ cycle path.

On the other side of the railway wall you can see a collection of buildings. This was the gardeners’ area where plants would be provided for the cemetery. There are greenhouses, potting and tool sheds and other outbuildings including a bothy or shelter for the under gardeners’ use. As there was a chimney included, it is supposed that the gardeners had their cuppas in there as well as sheltering when the weather was inclement. Only part of this structure still exists, the rest of the outbuildings having been demolished several years ago. You may just about be able to spot a second, smaller chimney attached to the left of the greenhouses. We believe this was used to heat those greenhouses when required.

To the left of the outbuildings you can see the cottage in which the Head Gardener would be in permanent residence. The cottage was mostly demolished in the 1970s and only a part of the wall can now be seen. This was all when the site belonged to a private company, before The City of Edinburgh Council took over in 1994.

This image has been valuable to us in not only providing a rare glimpse into the past of this wonderful cemetery but we have also used it to locate some gravestones in various areas that were hidden amongst the modern undergrowth.

The image can be found on the following page of Britain From Above. In order to zoom in on that site you need to register with them which is free to do so. Link below;

https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/SPW056048

 

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May 8th 2020

09 Saturday May 2020

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A few images from around the cemetery on a brightening morning.

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May 4th 2020

04 Monday May 2020

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A few images from around the cemetery on an overcast morning.

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January 2020 Round-up.

01 Saturday Feb 2020

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Various days in January 2020. Not very much going on this month but there will be more activity as the year grows.

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News from the cemetery Garden; bulbs are showing.

 

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The Snowdrops begin.

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A bout of breeziness brought down a huge tree branch across this path. It fell from a tree to the right of the picture, and that sawn edge is from previous work to recreate the path. A couple of hours of sawing through lots of little off-branches and the path is navigable again

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Everything is coming out early again. Here are some snowdrops, daffodil buds and heather. We have crocus shoots and bluebells coming out too, but they’re not ready for their close-ups yet.

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The modern equivalent of “Ten Green Bottles”! Another three were in hands or pockets.

 

We were asked, via our Facebook page, if we would take photos of a couple of family gravestones. Below are some of the photos we were able to send the inquirer…

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Filling in the ‘loch’.

14 Wednesday Aug 2019

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The ‘loch’ in question was the nickname for a shallow basin in the carriageway that regularly filled up with water due to rain. The water was always murky as it mixed with soil and had a very muddy bottom. Some of the visiting dogs liked it but the owners weren’t so keen when they saw their pets emerge covered in muddy water! One dog in particular springs to mind – a young golden retriever that had a pristine coat just before it had a brief mud bath in this pond. Afterwards, only the top of its head and top of its back were still blonde but the rest was a dark shade of brown! The dog’s owner was not available for comment.

The pool had been slowly growing in width over the years to the point where people were only just able to pass on one side. We thought it was time to re-establish the carriageway so that visitors could once again use it. A narrow trench was dug to provide a channel along which the water could drain away down the slope. Once almost completely drained, much mud was shovelled out. We had obtained a couple of tons of roof slate which was placed into the basin barrowload by barrowload from its location at the main gate. That task was almost complete when a 3-man crew from The City of Edinburgh Council stepped in to help us finish the job. They carried down the remaining slate on the front shovel of their digger machine then put some recycled road planings, which they had brought in on a truck for this purpose, on top then levelled it off with the mechanical shovel. You can see the results as well as ‘before’ and work in progress shots below. Click on an image to view a larger version. This will open in a new browser tab or window.

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