Tenement repair, Belgrave Place

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Tenement repair, Belgrave Place

Image: © kim traynor Taken: 12 Oct 2010

Raising this stone into position turned out to be a lot harder than it looked. Now that the old quarries that supplied the Edinburgh building trade have gone, Hailes, Craigleith or Binnie stone is no longer available and a match has to be found from further afield in Aberdeenshire or Orkney.

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Image Location

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Latitude
55.955667
Longitude
-3.220841