LCCC has received the following drawings and information from the developer via Friends of Pilrig Park.
Click the thumbnail images to open full-sized PDFs:
 A 02 01 M |
 Boundary Treatments A09 01 |
 Footpath temporary measures plan |
 Proposed Signage Location Plan |
 SK1 Footpath Remedials |
 streetlight brochure |
(adapted from an email from Friends of Pilrig park)
The Friends of Pilrig Park will be holding a Public Meeting along with our AGM on Monday 12th October from 6.30-8.00pm at the Nelson Hall in McDonald Road Library.
If you can spare the time please do come along and share your thoughts and ideas about the park. If you can’t make it along on the evening but have some ideas regarding park improvements please email them through by Friday 9th October. Click the links for the minutes from the last meeting, an agenda for the AGM and a poster about the AGM. Continue reading
Click to download: 2015_09_21 agenda
(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
Leith Central Community Council 