Bruntsfield

Original Post Office corner of Montpelier Park and Merchiston Place

It's not just the name of the Post Office; this used to be an ancient forest where royalty went hunting.

The gold lettering is still present.

Was a Ferrari restaurant briefly then shut down. It was then going to be Bruntsfield Kitchen.

Bruntsfield Kitchen didn't last long.

2013

Holy Corner April 2002

Holy Corner April 2002

No longer used as a church. The film Chariots of Fire was based on events in Eric Liddell's life.

Steeple repairs

Looking NNE towards Edinburgh Castle.

Church Hill Theatre is at the very top of the picture.

The road ascends to Church Hill before descending all the way down to Morningside Station. The white box-shaped building is part of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.

East from Holy corner. On the right, partially obscured by one of the scaffold's planks, is the southern end of the Eric Liddell Centre. Directly below is the Church of Scotland Morningside United at 15 Chamberlain Road.

Looking south down Morningside Road.

Looking south-east over the leafy suburbs of Greenhill, Church Hill and The Grange towards Blackford Hill.

At the bottom left of the picture is the bus stop at the top of the hill opposite Abbotsford Park. The patch of green at the top of the picture is next to Hermitage Terrace.

Inside the ground floor at the northwest corner facing east. The stairs at the end of the tiled passageway lead up to new floors constructed when the building's interior was modified.

Attractive metal lettering beside the wheelchair ramp

Horne Terrace provides pedestrian or bicycle access to the eastern end of Dorset Place. It's a cul-de-sac off St Peter's Place, part of Viewforth.

In 2016 new buildings are being erected at the Viewforth end.

Eric Liddell stained glass window

Eric Liddell stained glass window

Eric Liddell stained glass window

Eric Liddell stair

Eric Liddell stair

A sunny corner of an older, stone-built stairway.

August 2009

Photograph taken opposite the Bruntsfield Hotel looking across towards Bruntsfield Terrace across the park. Maple leaves are scattered across the grass in the autumn sunshine.

The Links at auttumn

Bottom of Leamington Terrace

Same subject matter in August 2011. The police box has been painted.

42 Viewforth Terrace. The answer to everything.

It would be difficult to 'excell' the advertised whiskies at 3/- (15p) and 3/6 (17.5p).

Photoshop modification in response to EEN's erroneous report.

Replaced by a Sainsburys branch.

Bruntsfield Terrace at the top of the Links

The text on this notice board relates some interesting facts about Bruntsfield Links: Golf played here from the mid 18th century; sheep and cattle grazed here; 30,000 celebrated in the Reform Jubilee after 'men of property' got the vote; Muriel Spark (creator of Miss Jean Brodie) walked across here to attend James Gillespie's School.

Long lens view of Leamington Terrace

Leamington Terrace looking uphill

At the corner of Warrender Park Road and Alvanley Terrace there are these two commercial premises sporting low profile paint jobs.

At the Bruntsfield end of Warrender Park Road

The proprieter lady now has a café next to the Cameo cinema at Tollcross.

The gull pranced threateningly at the crow but the crow stood its ground. Other crows registered their annoyance vocally at the intruder.

Following the rainy weather in June and July of 2012 a few puddles formed on Bruntsfield Links and Twitter featured a few photos. I caught the reflection of Salisbury Crags and Arthur's Seat by placing the camera close to the water. This made the puddle look like a pond.

To the right of a filling station is this top part of Barclay Place.

Barclay Church

Originally a branch of the TSB bank, this was a Howies restaurant for a while. The Italian restaurant chain took over in February 2013.

She's gone to her new premises next to the Cameo cinema.

She's gone to her new premises next to the Cameo cinema.

Chance Autographer shot in the local newsagent

On Bruntsfield Place near the top of Viewforth

Nice to see the signs for THE JOHN MUIR WAY. And amusing to see the cross-eyed face on the walking man symbol.

No doubt about the voting intentions here.

distinctive appearance

Crystal ball on wooden table outside Eric Liddell Center

Bruntsfield Terrace and Bruntsfield Crescent run west-east at the top of Bruntsfield Links, the latter of the two visible through the trees in this picture. The shadows of the four nearest trees are at the edge of what was once a quarry.

A different view taken in the middle of October 2009.

BIKES, PRAMS, DOGS, CATS AND ZOMBIES: ALL WELCOME

Montpelier Park in monochrome

Edinburgh Castle from Bruntsfield Place

On two separate days I was lucky enough to get pictures of Montpeliers unobstructed by parked cars. This one was taken on 5th April 2015 at 10am.

This rare event was repeated 4 days later in the afternoon.

Two men wearing suits and ties. They're wearing lapel badges and one is holding a bible while they attempt to 'save the souls' of two women having their sandwiches.

Corner of Barclay Place and Terrace

The Royal Blind Asylum shop at the corner of Gillespie Crescent is no longer there but the building still bears its name in this picture. Bruntsfield Place begins here but the east side of the road is still called Barclay Place until the start of the Bruntsfield Links public park 100 metres up the hill.

Interactive 360º photos are on their own page.

Interactive 360º photos are on their own page.

Interactive 360º photos are on their own page.

Interactive 360º photos are on their own page.

Interactive 360º photos are on their own page.

Interactive 360º photos are on their own page.

Interactive 360º photos are on their own page.

Interactive 360º photos are on their own page.

Interactive 360º photos are on their own page.

Interactive 360º photos are on their own page.

Interactive 360º photos are on their own page.

Interactive 360º photos are on their own page.

Interactive 360º photos are on their own page.

Infrared Holy Corner

The south end of Bruntsfield Place is home to the Edinburgh Bookshop. The road changes its name to Morningside Road as it heads further south to Church Hill and Morningside.

Further along this path towards Bruntsfield Terrace whose tenements are left of centre in the picture. Bruntsfield Place is behind the trees on the right

Closer to and looking back towards Bruntsfield Place.

The wet 2012 summer left several pools of water on Bruntsfield Links prompting numerous comments on Twitter.

Looking up Leamington Walk from the Marchmont Road end. Barclay Church stands at the back of the scene, just down from the Golf Tavern.

Across Whitehouse Loan, still technically on Bruntsfield Links though no golf is played here. The Edinburgh Bicycle Co-op is near here.

A surreal treatment. A fisheye view straightened out and filtered for fun.

Wide angle infrared view north across the end of Chamberlain Road

The wheelchair ramp entrance to the Eric Liddell Centre.

Bruntsfield Medical Centre in infrared

Bruntsfield Medical Centre in infrared

The top, golf-free part of Bruntsfield Links has benches and tables popular with pupils from Boroughmuir school during lunch breaks.

Looking across Bruntsfield Links towards Salisbury Crags

Salisbury Crags and Arthur's Seat provide the scenic background for a game of golf on Bruntsfield Links.

Zoomed in on Arthur's Seat which caught a brief sunny spell. Those light coloured pixels on the summit are people.

The curve of Bruntsfield Place as seen from the junction of Montpelier Park and Merchiston Place. Photographed in infrared.

A similar view but with the camera held level so that vertical lines don't converge

Alight here at this bus stop for Holy Corner when coming from the city centre. There is another row of specialist shops here before Chamberlain Road and the Eric Liddell Centre.

Taken with a compact camera, Sony RX100M4 at the digital equivalent of film speeds up to ISO-3200

Taken with a compact camera, Sony RX100M4 at the digital equivalent of film speeds up to ISO-3200

Taken with a compact camera, Sony RX100M4 at the digital equivalent of film speeds up to ISO-3200

Taken with a compact camera, Sony RX100M4 at the digital equivalent of film speeds up to ISO-3200

The Pope came to Bruntsfield on the 16th of September 2010. This was the start of the motorcade as it passed my window.

Cardinal O'Brien could be indicating some of the interesting shops opposite Howies Restaurant.

Zoomed in a bit on the popemobile.

Some heavy duty hardware to have on your RV's roof-rack. Makes Google StreetView cameras look like point-and-shoot. I reckon this was beaming live TV to my screen - this and that noisy helicopter that hung about for ages.

About to turn left into Chamberlain Road, the Pope waves to crowds at Holy Corner outside the bank next to Tesco and Christ Church.

St Bennet's, the Pope's destination and Cardinal O'Brien's home.

In 2010 the pope passed by. In 2012 it was the Olympic Flame procession. This is some of the crowd at the north west corner of the Holy Corner junction.

Two torch carriers shake hands as the flame is passed from torch to torch.

We have ignition.

More conventional than the pope-mobile but pleasantly different to modern cars. Parked in Bruntsfield Place. A chance photograph from my window.

A couple of crows who roost on this lampost, often on wet nights. Traffic passing below doesn't bother them. They're awake in these 2 photos but usually tuck their beaks in to keep warm.

Howies is no more and has been replaced by McDonalds. (I've used my artistic license here to portray a worst-case-possible scenario.)

Potholes proliferate and the council is having to compensate some road users. Patching this sort of surface won't last long because the entire width is crumbling away.

The same section of road looking towards Bruntsfield Crescent.

The view from Bruntsfield Links. Frequently photographed by visitors with cell phones but a long lens is really needed to fill the frame with Salisbury Crags and Arthur's Seat.

This and the next few photos all feature young trees with Warrender Park Terrace providing the background. Leamington Walk is the footpath descending to Marchmont Road.

A tree catches the sun at the corner of Spottiswoode Street and Warrender Park Terrace.

Sunlit leaves contrasting nicely with the tenement buildings.

Workers taking a break during the intense activity refitting Montpelier's bar on Bruntsfield Place. A chance Autographer picture.

Autographer's algorithm detected that I had turned round and took this second picture.

On May 19th 2015 the resurfacing of Bruntsfield Place started. This is the first example of the light trails effect in exposure of 6 or 10 seconds. I knew that flashing lights would create interesting effects as they moved.

I combined 3 shots into this animated GIF.

Some amber warning lights rotate. The light trails on the left were probably of this type.

A camera exposure of 10 seconds reveals the slow rise of the tipper truck's hopper as its contents slide into the spreader machine.

Previously photographed in recent years. I revisited again in 2015. Here you can sit in a quiet, public garden. It's appreciated by tenement flat dwellers nearby. (Chamberlain Road)

If you're looking for information about John Livingston and the Black Death, this informative notice on the wall will help. Quote: 'half the population of Leith may have died'.

The actual headstone is inside the gated area. This bench is the ideal place to sit for a while and watch the world (or at least the traffic) go by.

Merchiston Mews runs parallel to (and in-between) Granville Terrace and Dorset Place. The 4 storey tenements pictured here are in the less posh bottom end of Merchiston Avenue.

An infrared view from Bruntsfield Links to Arthur's Seat. (infrared pictures taken with modified Pentax *ist DL)

Almost the first of my experimental motion-shot images. These are done using an in-camera app on the Sony RX100M4.

You can select whether later captured images should be in the foreground or background, depending on whether the subject is approaching or receding.

A different edit (done with the in-camera app) of the previous picture. This time I used more captured images and selected fade-out.

Bruntsfield commuters in the morning. Fade-in used to create ghostly trails.

Two edits from the same sequence of images. No fade effects used here.

Same sequence faded in.

This year (2016) the parents timed the hatching perfectly for a good spell of weather. Four chicks present their pink throats to their parent, demanding food.

17 days later and their eyes are open. The tree's leaves have since grown.

Taken in evening sunshine. Four chicks are visible.

This chick landed awkardly and local people stood guard over it on the pavement. The SSPCA was phoned and a woman arrived soon after to rescue it. She told us it was the runt, just skin and bone and would recover after being fed and looked after. It was exhausted rather than injured.

July 2016. Busy Holy Corner bus stop with Spanish exchange students at Napier Uni.

The proprietor went on to open a new business next to the Cameo cinema.

Taken on my phone on 4th of March 2017

Taken on my phone on 4th of March 2017

Previously photographed in InfraRed but worth doing again.

Another IR view with Bruntsfield Terrace in the background on the left. Bruntsfield Place is behind the trees.

In Chamberlain Road, John Livingston's Tomb.

John Livingston's Tomb.

Shop window in Bruntsfield

Shop window in Bruntsfield

To the left of the fence is the building site for Boroughmuir school.

The gable end mural at Horne Terrace is faded and construction here will hide it forever.

A view of the Horne Terrace gap site across the canal.

5 photos taken using an action camera. A shop window in Bruntsfield Place.

Another view of the shop window in Bruntsfield Place.

Barclay Place

Barclay church

A wider view of Barclay church

½ man, ½ tulip

Boroughmuir new school May 2018