(adapted from an email from Alan Dean, Partnership Development Officer, sent on 20 May 2015 at 16:15)
The main footway resurfacing on Leith Walk, Duke Street, Great Junction Street is now largely completed. The remaining slabbing works will continue in front of Kirkgate shopping centre with the new trees now having been installed. Continue reading
Click to download: 2015_04_20 draft
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(Please note that this statement was circulated by Alan Dean, CEC Partnership Development Officer (Stakeholder Liaison and Engagement) on 29 April 2015 at 11:45
The Foot of the Walk junction works
The contractors carrying out the upgrade works to the Foot of the Walk junction (MacLay Civil Engineering Ltd) continue to make good progress with the current work sections and anticipate that, everything going as planned, they should finish at the end of May. Continue reading
Click to download: 2015_03_16 final
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(based on a flyer posted on Tower Wharf Residents’ Association’s website – thank you!)
At 6:49 on 22 May 1915 a troop-train carrying 498 members of the 1st/7th (Leith) Battalion, The Royal Scots, en route to Liverpool to embark for Gallipoli crashed into a local train parked on the wrong line, at Quintinshill, just north of Gretna. A minute later a Glasgow-bound express ploughed into the wreckage. 216 men from the Battalion died and a further 220 were injured in the crash and ensuing fire. Nearly all came from Leith, Musselburgh and Portbello. It is still by far the worst accident for casualties in the history of railways in briatin. Most of those who died were buried in a communal grave in Rosebank Cemetery, Pilrig Street, where a memorial Cross and Plaques commemorate all 216 who died. Continue reading
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