An empire long gone
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An empire long gone
Image: © Gordon Hatton Taken: 23 May 2017
The very boring sixties building seen here on the corner of Groundwell Road and Princes Street replaced the Empire Theatre which stood on the same site when I was a child in the fifties. The junction is at the bottom of Victoria Road, a hill leading towards Old Town, and down which a tram once ran out of control and tipped over on this corner.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.558275
Longitude
-1.779544