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Here we are looking from Ferry Road Drive across West Pilton Terrace towards West Granton Loan. There had been prefabs here after the war, replaced by these flats in the 1960s. Before the century was out they, too, had gone.
A few weeks before this scene was recorded, a resident in a nearby block apparently sought to kill himself in a deliberate gas explosion. The structural damage was so severe that the building had to be demolished.
It's tempting to feel nostalgic about all that old-fashioned gang graffiti on the lower walls, until you remember just how awful and demoralising it was at the time.
And there's that inevitable street light with the faulty timer!
Back to bleak images of urban Scotland in the 1980s: this was Edinburgh in 1985, ten years before the making of Trainspotting.
West Pilton was one of the housing schemes conceived before the war, but not completed until some time after it. Within thirty years it had become stigmatised; its houses difficult to let. At the end of 1985 the derelict blocks of West Pilton Circus were in the process of renovation.
Today - much altered - this is West Pilton Green.
From the beautifully produced book "Civic Affairs" produced by the City of Leicester's Publicity and Development Department and that looks at the principal activities of the Corporation. It appears to be in the same design 'suite' as other Council publications for the era and, even with some marvellous graphics and charts, no designer is credited.
These two pages look at the city's Housing Department that had, like most other British municipalities, started social housing schemes as part of the post-WW1 legislation. In the 1930s the schemes would have been to provide better homes for families displaced from inner-city slum clearances.
#75998 Elegant bridge in a storm, Wester Hailes, Scotland, 1979. John Walmsley was Photographer in Residence at the Education Centre for three weeks in 1979. The Education Centre was, at the time, Scotland's largest purpose built community High School open all day every day for all ages from primary to adults. The town of Wester Hailes, a few miles to the south west of Edinburgh, was built in the early 1970s mostly of blocks of flats and high rises.
From the beautifully produced book "Civic Affairs" produced by the City of Leicester's Publicity and Development Department and that looks at the principal activities of the Corporation. It appears to be in the same design 'suite' as other Council publications for the era and, even with some marvellous graphics and charts, no designer is credited.
These two pages look at the city's Housing Department that had, like most other British municipalities, started social housing schemes as part of the post-WW1 legislation. In the 1930s the schemes would have been to provide better homes for families displaced from inner-city slum clearances.
Demolition work taking place in Niddrie/Craigmillar, Edinburgh. Best thing that could happen in the place.
Edinburgh City Council, in common with all other UK local authorities, played a massive role in the post-WW1 provision of social housing to help provide decent accommodation for people living in inner-city slums.
This scheme, in the south of the city at The Inch, was a relatively low density scheme developed on the 'contour line layout' of linking roads and associated housing to the nature of the terrain. It was largely constructed as planned - simply be warned, this diagram is 'faced' almost south!
The middle tower block in the foreground was 30 Bogany Terrace. It was a 20 storey tower block in Castlemilk,Glasgow built c.1967/68.
On Sunday 28th March 1993, 30 Bogany terrace was demolished and became the third high rise casualty in Glasgow. The demolition of many of Glasgow's tower blocks has gathered pace over the past decade and soon there will only be a few left.
#75780 Making their way to the Education Centre, Festival & Gala Day, Wester Hailes, Scotland, 1979. John Walmsley was Photographer in Residence at the Education Centre for three weeks in 1979. The Education Centre was, at the time, Scotland's largest purpose built community High School open all day every day for all ages from primary to adults. The town of Wester Hailes, a few miles to the south west of Edinburgh, was built in the early 1970s mostly of blocks of flats and high rises.
#75911 Mums and babes in the sun, Wester Hailes, Scotland, 1979. John Walmsley was Photographer in Residence at the Education Centre for three weeks in 1979. The Education Centre was, at the time, Scotland's largest purpose built community High School open all day every day for all ages from primary to adults. The town of Wester Hailes, a few miles to the south west of Edinburgh, was built in the early 1970s mostly of blocks of flats and high rises.
#75946 Playing on the railings, Wester Hailes, Scotland, 1979. John Walmsley was Photographer in Residence at the Education Centre for three weeks in 1979. The Education Centre was, at the time, Scotland's largest purpose built community High School open all day every day for all ages from primary to adults. The town of Wester Hailes, a few miles to the south west of Edinburgh, was built in the early 1970s mostly of blocks of flats and high rises.
#75948 Mums enjoying the sun, Wester Hailes, Scotland, 1979. John Walmsley was Photographer in Residence at the Education Centre for three weeks in 1979. The Education Centre was, at the time, Scotland's largest purpose built community High School open all day every day for all ages from primary to adults. The town of Wester Hailes, a few miles to the south west of Edinburgh, was built in the early 1970s mostly of blocks of flats and high rises.
#75903 Driving rain sweeps through the housing scheme, Wester Hailes, Scotland, 1979. John Walmsley was Photographer in Residence at the Education Centre for three weeks in 1979. The Education Centre was, at the time, Scotland's largest purpose built community High School open all day every day for all ages from primary to adults. The town of Wester Hailes, a few miles to the south west of Edinburgh, was built in the early 1970s mostly of blocks of flats and high rises.