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Dist:0.1km<br/>Five roads converge here, four of them busy arteries. The Victorian building on the far side of the junction houses the Flora Stevenson Primary School http://www.florastevensonprimary.org/.
©Anne Burgess
Dist:0.1km<br/>Gravestone in Comely Bank cemetery, Edinburgh of John Adam Porter,"Jock", who died in 1952 aged 58. The ornamental panel on the headstone states Jock was Scotland's first TT winner, winning in 1923 and 1924.
©ronnie leask
Dist:0.1km<br/>This modern bank stands on the north-east side of Comely Bank Roundabout. To its left there is a glimpse of the Royal Mail's Comely Bank sorting office.
©Anne Burgess
Dist:0.2km<br/>A mounted policewoman is overtaken by a motorcycle outside a modern block of flats on the south side of Comely Bank. This makes a pleasant change from trying to avoid images of blurred white vans obscuring the view.
©Anne Burgess
Dist:0.2km<br/>The view of Orchard Road, showing bungalows which tend to be the prominent form of housing in the Ravelston, Orchard Brae and Craigleith area of Edinburgh.
©Sandy Gemmill
Dist:0.2km<br/>Lothian and Borders Police "Head Office", Fettes.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is where you have to come if you're pout when the postman tries to deliver parcels or special deliveries in north-west Edinburgh. There are a few parking spaces for customers collecting items from the office reached by the ramp at the right, and some of the most vicious speed bumps in the city. Fortunately these can be evaded by driving (very cautiously) on the right!
©Anne Burgess
Dist:0.3km<br/>This modest church, tucked away between the Royal Mail sorting office and a block of flats, belongs to the Scottish Episcopal Church. See http://www.stninians-edinburgh.org.uk/
©Anne Burgess
Dist:0.3km<br/>St Ninian's Church is to the left of this modern block. I note the striped bollards for reserved parking spaces, and wonder whether the car park is also insufficient for the demand.
©Anne Burgess
Dist:0.3km<br/>This modern block of flats is sandwiched between St Ninian's Church on the left and the supermarket, presently a Waitrose.
©Anne Burgess
Dist:0.3km<br/>You can't really blame Waitrose for this singularly soulless building on Comely Bank, because they didn't build it. If I recall correctly it started out as a Safeway, and was also at one time a Sainsburys. Even a brash Tesco would be less of a blot on the streetscape than this. One lives in hope that they may one day knock it down and build something less ugly.
©Anne Burgess
Dist:0.3km<br/>This is the rear of the building, seen through the security gate on Crewe Road South. The main entrance is on the other side of the building, in Fettes Avenue.
©Anne Burgess
Dist:0.3km<br/>A collection at an office work place on Queensferry Road, Orchard Brae
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.3km<br/>An elaborate sculpture of the Royal Coat of Arms over the gable entrance to the administrative block of the hospital, built in 1903. The sanatorium for TB sufferers opened in 1894 and later treated casualties from the Great War, some of whom are buried in the adjacent cemetery.
©kim traynor
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking across from the junction of Carrington Road and Crewe Road South. Arthur's Seat and Edinburgh Castle are on the skyline.
©M J Richardson

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