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This is the rear of the same university building, housing the library and lecture theatre.
©Alan Stewart
This building has been a mental hospital, a sanatorium for the war wounded: WW1 war poets recovered here, a nunnery/teaching school and now is part of Napier University.
©Alan Stewart
The aqueduct carrying the Union canal in the foreground and the railway viaduct in the background. Taken from the water of Leith walkway.
©Kevin Rae
The Water of Leith is crossed by the Union Canal on this fine aqueduct, one of several on this canal. Beyond is the more recent railway viaduct. The Water of Leith is Edinburgh's hidden river, often flowing through deep gorges. It is remarkably clean and carries the fauna of an upland river. Dippers and Kingfishers breed in the city centre and are often seen. The trout fishing is good too.
©Richard Webb
©kim traynor
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©Tom Richardson
Dist:0.3km<br/>Simultaneous with the contract for dredging the Union Canal within Edinburgh, British Waterways drained a portion of the canal near the Allan Park footbridge — one of the temporary dams can be seen in the canal in the distance — in order to repair a possible leak. The newly strengthened tow-path wall is very obvious. To get access to the canal bed for heavy machinery necessitated a temporary roadway being constructed on the offside of the canal and the digger on the left is engaged in sloping off the partially restored canal bankside.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>The stump of a tower house in the grounds of Napier University's Craiglockhart campus. Little is known of its history, except that it was granted by James IV "to Thomas Kincaid, son of Thomas Kincaid burgess of Edinburgh on resignation by Patrick Kincaid of Craiglockhart, the lands of the same with tower and fortalice". (RCAHMS Report, 1929)
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Opened in 1880 as a hydropathic sanatorium, the building was commandeered by the War Office in 1916 for use as a military psychiatric hospital. In 1920 it was bought by the Catholic Church and turned into a teacher training college, which it remained until the early 1990s. It then became part of the rapidly expanding Napier University. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craiglockhart_Hydropathic
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Dist:0.4km<br/>A room in the Craiglockhart campus of Napier University contains a modest, but effective display commemorating the poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon who were residents when the building was a military psychiatric hospital during the Great War.
©kim traynor
Dist:0.4km<br/>This slab of blue slate, imported from Burlington Quarry in Cumbria, was erected to commemorate the completion of the Water of Leith Walkway in 2002. Given the abundance and variety of local stone, and the historic importance of quarrying all along the course of the river, it seems curious that the monument should be a type of stone totally alien to Central Scotland. Pity, too, about the unfortunately sited litter bin, which hardly enhances the impact of the monolith.
©Anne Burgess
Dist:0.4km<br/>Two cyclists and a sculler approach the Allan Park footbridge over the Union Canal near Slateford. The bridge, locally known as the "Tin Bridge", was erected in 1904 by the contractors building Redford Barracks in Colinton Road. It carried a private railway line from Slateford sidings to the barracks to bring in stone, bricks and other building materials. After crossing the canal it followed the line of today's Craiglockhart Road and entered the barracks site opposite Elliot Road. The track was left in place once the barracks were completed but the rails were eventually removed about 1924-5. The bridge, however, survived and today carries a footpath and a major water pipe.
©A-M-Jervis

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