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Nile Grove, EDINBURGH, EH10 4RE

Monday to Friday during the day. This far out there are few takers for the expensive parking. There is free parking to the south but there is a "petty hour" during the day when it is banned completely to prevent park and ride. This always coincides with your visit.

A garage set a little way back from the lane. It was originally one of the many byres in the city which disappeared gradually in the first half of the 20th century. See Image for some information on the city's byres in the past.

A house of character, in fact three in all, bought and combined by the English-born Victorian painter of Scottish landscapes Sam Bough. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Bough An earlier occupant of the middle house was David Ramsay Hay, who was responsible for the interior decoration of Holyrood Palace in the reign of George IV and assisted Walter Scott with designs at Abbotsford.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ramsay_Hay A later occupant was the 20thC architect Sir Basil Spence. You can tell somehow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Spence

The jarring combination of triangle and semicircle was very popular at one time

Morningside's sandstone villas, terraces and tenements, with Corstorphine Hill on the skyline, and one white tower block sticking up like a sore thumb left of centre.

Leafy Morningside street running alongside the old suburban railway line which lies in a cutting behind the fence on the left.

The Suburban Railway is on the left.

Two survivors of a row of small cottages, known as Jordan Bank Cottages, some of which were demolished to make room for Morningside's first tenement block built in 1857 seen on the right of the picture. George Meikle Kemp, the architect of the Scott Monument, is known to have moved to this lane from a cottage in Canaan Lane, but the evidence as to exactly where he lived is confused. Local historian Charles J Smith explained that it was believed Kemp lived at 1 Jordan Lane (hence his house must be one of the demolished cottages). However, he also pointed out that the directory address, on which the belief is based, is not Jordan 1, as thought, but Jordan l, standing for Jordan Lane. If this is the case, he could have lived elsewhere in the lane, and so far his house has not been conclusively unidentified. Some think it might have been the cottage shown here on the left.

The former Braid Church, now united with Morningside Parish Church.