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FINAL DESIGN FOR POWDERHALL JUNCTION

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Following in-person and online discussions with the public which began in September 2022, engineering and design consultants Stantec have updated plans to reconfigure the Powderhall Junction.

 

The preferred option aims to improve safe and inclusive connectivity and to encourage active travel through the intersection of McDonald Rd, Broughton Road, St Mark’s Path and the entrance to the future housing development.

 

Features of the final design include:

  • advanced stop lines and maximised approach lanes for cyclists

THE INDUSTRIAL HALL (8)

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Future potential, squashed present, thrills on horseback

As noted in last week's article, in the summer of 1925, Edinburgh politicians, officials and commentators had reacted with barely suppressed excitement to the news that the Kelviin Halls in Glasgow had burned down.

 

WHO SPILLED COCK ROBIN?

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Look at the photo and what do you see?

Spurtle reader Tibor Farkas, who sent us this Bellevue Place detail, sees ‘a blood-soaked robin with an albino crayfish beside it’. 

It is in fact a chance splash of paint next to some randomly tangled string and old Pot Noodles. 

THE INDUSTRIAL HALL (7)

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On the surface, all appeared to be well at the Industrial Hall, Edinburgh’s first purpose-built exhibition space, as a new year dawned.

 

On 6 January 1925, beneath a positive review for a similar show at the ailing Waverley Market venue, the Edinburgh Evening News sang the praises of the soon-to-conclude World’s Fair and Carnival:

 

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