Gorgie, one of Edinburgh’s oldest areas, is recorded in the 12th century charters of Holyrood Abbey and has been in its current form since the 1880s, when hundreds of tenement buildings were built on and around Gorgie Road as Edinburgh expanded.
Great old photos of some of the area’s most iconic buildings which are gone but not forgotten by locals feature in our look back at Gorgie over the years, including the iconic Ferranti building on Gorgie Road and the old Tynecastle High School. There are also some great old photos of the people of Gorgie going about their daily lives over the years.
1. Queen
Queen of the Gorgie/Dalry Festival Lizzie Brown in Cathcart Place, June 1982. Photo: Bill Newton
2. Explosion
Fireman Gerry Nairn inspects the damage caused by a gas explosion at a Wardlaw Street block of flats in 1997. Photo: CRAUFORD TAIT
3. School days
Gordon Munro, former head teacher at Tynecastle High School, Edinburgh and Beath High, Cowdenbeath, pictured at the Gorgie school in the 1980s in front of the recently built sports games hall at the school. Photo: CRAUFORD TAIT
4. Bowled over
Members of the Bowls club Betty Paton, Phyllis Robertson and Margret Blackwood at Gorgie War Memorial in 2010. Photo: Ian Georgeson