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Saltire Street Art.

My usual Friday visit to Leith and nipped into Springfield Street to grab a few pics of this street art by Leith based artist Box Vincent.

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The Dog House, Leith Walk.

Nae Bams.

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The Shore Leith, from the upstairs on the 16 bus.

I Didn't recognise the boat at first till I got nearer and noticed it was still the Ocean Mist. It's great that after years sitting there it  now has a long term future and is now a 17 bedroom hotel.

  The Ocean Mist is due to open sometime in the coming weeks, check out it's progress on their twitter page here https://twitter.com/mistleith?lang=en-gb

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The Merchant Navy Memorial.

The 5.5 metre-high sandstone column, designed by Edinburgh Sculptor Jill Watson, is decorated with numerous bronze reliefs of ships and related subjects in addition to superbly detailed miniature figures which recognise the wide range of essential roles performed by Scottish seafarers and merchant seamen and their sacrifice, both during war and in peacetime.

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A wee add on to my last post, and the Newhaven Fisherman’s Cottages , as they are today 

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The Wee Museum of Memory.

This wee museum is on the top floor of Ocean Terminal and is run by the LMA, (The Living Memory Association), which was established in 1986, is an Edinburgh based group and charity, they have some great pics on their FB page on the link below.

I love the boundary plaque, which is still visible on at least one building in the Leith/Edinburgh boundary at Albion Road. Leith had traditionally been run from Edinburgh Council, but by Acts of the U.K. Parliament in 1827 and 1833 Leith became a separate burgh from Edinburgh. This allowed Leith to make their differences with Edinburgh clearer. Leith ran their own Police and Fire Service, a separate criminal court, Town Hall and Councillors and more importantly, had their own bye-laws.

The Bier Hoose bar on Leith Walk, was formerly known as The Boundary Bar and stands on the old boundary line between Leith and Edinburgh on the main street called Leith Walk opposite the top of Pilrig Street.  There were two entrance/exit doors that were very important for this pub. The Boundary Bar had two liquor licenses from two Licensing Authorities. Not a recipe for success? Well things went well until the end of the drinking day. Because Leith revellers were allowed to drink half an hour later than their Edinburgh friends, so ‘time’ would be called on the Edinburgh side of the Boundary Bar and everyone who wanted to keep on drinking – i.e. everyone – would move round to the Leith side of the bar. 

This all changed after the highly controversial vote of 1920 to bring Leith under the jurisdiction of Edinburgh. Although Leithers voted by a 6 to 1 majority to stay separate, amalgamation took place with Leith and Edinburgh bye-laws became one.https://www.facebook.com/livingmemoryassociation

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