Houses off Ravenscroft Street
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Houses off Ravenscroft Street
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 24 Nov 2011
Gilmerton was an old coalmining village lying four miles from Edinburgh before the urban sprawl reached it in the 1930s. These appear to be upgraded miners' cottages from the time when the inhabitants led a semi-rural existence away from the hubbub of the city.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.904559
Longitude
-3.13414