The Bridges

Infirmary Street Baths photographed from the balcony on a quiet morning. Original negative scanned again 2005 for a larger, clearer image.

Near the bottom of Infirmary Street, close to the Cowgate at the foot of St Mary's Street. They'd be Corporation houses then.

The street called High School Yards is round to the left. Infirmary Street takes a right-angle bend under the chimney from the baths boiler house and continues up to South Bridge.

Sadly, the baths have long since shut down. In 2010 the Commonwealth Pool is shut for renovation and Warrender Baths needs the roof fixed since glass fell onto a swimmer.

Traffic on South Bridge June 2009.

Strangely free of people and traffic even for Sunday at noon. Forbidden Planet is closed today.

At the corner of Infirmary Street and South Bridge Thin's long established bookshop is now Blackwell's, and Flip Clothing has turned into Tesco Express.

Four pictures of the Wall of Fame which celebrates the building of the Edinburgh Festival Theatre. The tiles were produced by the Edinburgh College of Art in June 1994.

Three photos cover all the signed tiles, saved to suit a large monitor (1920 x 1080) for legibility without scrolling.

I don't recognise too many celebrities' names here but I do remember Mackenzies Sports next to the old Empire Theatre.

Sean Connery's signed tile is easily spotted in the leftmost column.

Looking up at the south end of North Bridge. The Carlton Hotel towers overhead. The Scotsman Hotel faces it across the road.

From further away with a longer lens. An Edinburgh Vintage Bus carries visitors over North Bridge. Through the arch can be seen a fluttering Saltire and part of the castle.

The third shot in this group is photographed from higher up on East Market Street.

This close leads up from Jeffrey Street to the High Street just below the Tron crossroads.

Photographed from East Market Street. North Bridge carries a double-decker bus from the east end of Princes Street over the top of Waverley Station.

Another early photograph. Classic Victorian architecture. Edinburgh's Chambers Street Museum still looks much like this in 2003.

Another view taken about 30 years later from the ground floor at the opposite end of the hall. Fisheye lens on Pentax *ist digital camera.

In the 1970s, the museum was somewhere free and warm to sit in, to read the paper or fall asleep. I particularly like the cylindrical radiator around the pillar.

A wide-angle view of the roof area. The Tower Restaurant is through the door at the end. A sign points to the lift to the Roof Terrace which gives panoramic views of the Edinburgh skyline.

...to the roof terrace of the National Museum. This is one of several spiral staircases.

Some shots of the interesting stairways in the newer part of the museum. The low set lights cast a golden glow on the steps.

Further down the steps to the next section and daylight through the windows casts a different hue.

Reassuringly, in case you get lost in the labyrinth, a sign indicates the Way out, albeit rotated anticlockwise by 90º.

Reminiscent of DNA, this organic-looking spiral staircase takes you up or down the innards of the building. It's a wonderful setting for fascinating exhibits.

A black sign says 'Way out Hawthornden Court' and a purple sign says 'Hawthornden Stair'. This picture is a variation of museum stair 02 with the signs correctly orientated for legibility.

Outsize chess set in the museum June 2010.

A closer look at the white chess pieces.

It was a cool place to visit when I was a child. It's even more cool now.

The building itself is fascinating to explore. The architecture is intriguing as are the countless exhibits. There are interesting lifts (elevators) as well as stairs. Do allow plenty of time to wander.

A view of a passageway and the entrance to the Buchan Stair.

The wonderful clock commemorating a new century.

A more detailed view of some of the figures.

Not an exhibit but interesting nonetheless. There are numerous radiators and many of them were pleasantly hot when we visited.

Peeking through the building's intriguing architecture to a shop called Joe Cool on Forrest Road.

A child's clockwork record player. All analogue with no electronics.

Punched cards for controlling a loom. Each hole (or absence thereof) corresponds to a BInary digiT or BIT. Eight of these make a byte.

Created by Marion Henderson Wilson (1869-1956)

At the rear of the museum July 2006

A vintage tour bus passes below the southernmost of North Bridge's three arches. The Market Street entrance to Waverley Station is on the left.

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George IB Bridge crosses the valley between Chambers Street and the Royal Mile and runs parallel to South Bridge.

The promise of free WiFi has brought a bit of a crowd to the resource centre at the top of Victoria Street. The prospect of free cash has brought one person seated with a blanket.

Graffiti outside the public library on George IV Bridge. Observe the alteration of grammatical tense from present to past. Photographed in the late '70s after the LSD trial.

Visitors congregate round the Greyfriars Bobby dog statue, blocking the footpath and forcing people to walk on the roadway.

4 long lens photos of a very busy George IV Bridge. Greyfriars Bobby is just out of sight but the woman with the DSLR camera is eyeing it up.

Chaos and pandemonium are two words that spring to mind.

Edinburgh in August is like a city-sized theme park with multiple themes.

The three previous pictures were all of the west side. This is the east side of the street.

Standing at the northwest corner of the Roof Terrace facing southeast. This wide angle picture shows the McEwan Hall's dome at the right hand side.

A view south from the Museum Roof towards the Pentland Hills and the artificial ski slope at Hillend.

Two workmen are patching up the roof of the McEwan Hall.

Facing south, we can see the Braid Hills on the left, overshadowed by the Pentland Hills behind.

The clock tower of the Royal Infirmary at Lauriston Place dominates the view. Behind a forest of chimneys can be seen the multi-storey flats at Oxgangs.

Forrest Road is in the foreground, the tiny green patch at the right is Bruntsfield Links. Behind that is Craiglockhart Hill and Torphin Hill.

To the east is Edinburgh University Old College (at the other end of Chambers Street). Its dome has this distinctive gold figure at the top.

To the south is the Quartermile development at the old Royal Infirmary, beyond which are Braid Hill and a rather hazy Caerketton Hill in the Pentlands.

Looking north west over the rooftops on the west side of George IV Bridge. The triangular rooftop with the oval windows belongs to Central Library.

Same view as above but photographed more recently (November 2010). It was the seagull which drew my attention to the rooftop graffiti message: 'Oh! I LOVE YOU!'

The north view towards St Giles Cathedral. There are men in orange suits and safety harnesses poking about on the rooves of the High Courts at Parliament House, just south of St Giles.

Two of the orange-suited men are conferring. Another has appeared but he's not wearing high visibility clothing.

There are five men now, perhaps searching for anything untoward or inappropriate that might affect the business of the courts somehow...

A wider view showing Saltire flags and the steeple of St Giles Cathedral.

In this final view of the scene there's a sphinx apparently keeping watch on the workers.

The grey pyramid of the Central Library's roof is partly hidden by the steeple of the Augustine United church opposite the Elephant House café near the Frankenstein Pub.

The roof of the Crown Office on the north side of Chambers Street looks immaculate.

The Sheriff Court to the left and rear of the Crown Office is a comparatively recent building at the top of Chambers Street.

A wider view of Edinburgh University Old College showing the sea and Aberlady Bay in the distance and part of Arthur's Seat on the right.

Looking south-southeast over old and new. Moredun and Ferniehill are in the far distance.

The roof of the McEwan Hall, now refurbished.

The courthouse canopy contrasts with the darkening sky.

An infrared view from the roof of the museum.

Two long lens shots combined into an animated GIF of pupils in the playground.

Another long lens shot looking south towards Braid Hill behind which can be seen part of the T Woods and Caerketton in the Pentland Hills.

The third long lens picture is of Arthur's Seat festooned with climbers.

16/7/16 and it's busy on George IV Bridge near the Greyfriars Bobby statue.

Revisited this spot with my Ricoh Theta S 360º camera. This is a snapshot of part of the image.

1st of a selection of #AntiTrump photos taken 11th Feb 2017 in Edinburgh

of a selection of #AntiTrump photos taken 11th Feb 2017 in Edinburgh (last one)

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