These 22 images show Edinburgh’s Dumbiedykes before, during and after ‘slum clearance’
By The Newsroom
Published 28th Feb 2019, 14:03 GMT
Updated 28th Feb 2019, 15:07 GMT
Tenement condemned in Heriot Mount Edinburgh - Family evacuated
THE destruction of the Dumbiedykes district was Edinburgh’s most comprehensive slum clearance campaign of the post-war era.
Over the course of the 1960s, hundreds of families were relocated from often cramped and dilapidated Victorian tenements to new, more suitable developments in the local area and on the outskirts of the city. We take a fascinating look at the Dumbiedykes district as it was, before, during and after the demolition ball fell.
View of Edinburgh from Salisbury Crags looking over the tenements of the Pleasance by now mostly demolished.
One of the first streets to be demolished was Arthur Street off the Pleasance.
A coal lorry owned by Hugh Leckie and Sons famously crashed through the wall at the foot of Arthur Street.
Tenements at Dalrymple Place and Beaumont Place being shored up after a tenement had collapsed.
Beaumont Place, site of the 'Penny Tenement' collapse of 1959.
Salisbury Street tenements lay derelict by the mid-sixties.
Tenements at Brown Street where tenants had been ordered to quit. Kirk o' Field Church at top of street.
An Evening Dispatch reporter speaks with Mrs White in the kitchen of her Arthur Street house for an Edinburgh slums feature.
Heriot Mount beside James Clark's School. View looking towards Dumbiedykes Road on right, St Leonard's Hill on the left, with Carnegie Street straight ahead.
Derelict tenements at Salisbury Street where a fire had broken out.
