Historic Pictures of Port Hopetoun and Canal Basin Area
Lothian House was subsequently built upon the site of the drained canal basin. (Canmore, the National Record of Scotland's Historic Environment, has preserved these images of Edinburgh's past for posterity.)
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Above: Edinburgh Castle towers above the canal.
Right: Shops and workers around the drained Union Canal basin. |
Left: Hopetoun warehouse.
Below: View of Port Hopetoun and Union Canal.
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