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Let Us Stop Pollution Of The Water Of Leith

Thursday, 24 October, 2024 - 17:34
Campaigners have recently reported continual pollution of the WOL by Scottish Water. A recent article in the Times (22 October 2024) confirms that raw sewage, including lavatory solids like wet wipes and sanitary products, are regularly removed from the water by volunteers. An article on this website from 30 September 2020 quotes SEPA, the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, after being shown a recent photograph of continuing presence of sewage algae/weed in the Dean Valley water. In this email from 5 years earlier, 2015, SEPA confirmed that they had tested the water: There were no signs of sewage fungus or recent...
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Adam Bruce Thomson at City Arts Centre

Saturday, 11 May, 2024 - 18:16
This glorious painting of the weir and old Dean Bridge features in a major retrospective exhibition of the works of Adam Bruce Thomson, renowned Edinburgh teacher and painter, at the City Arts Centre 2 Market Street from 11 May to 6 Oct 2024. Entitled ‘The Quiet Path’ this exhibition dedicated to his life’s work, describes both his subjects and gentle manner as teacher, mentor and friend to other artists. For forty years he taught at the Edinburgh Art College influencing and encouraging a generation of Scottish artists. Drawings from WWI and enchanting portraits of his children through to his final...
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Transformation at Mackenzie Bridge, Dean Valley

Thursday, 7 March, 2024 - 23:32
Rampant ivy has recently been removed from the railings next to Mackenzie Bridge in the Dean Valley by the Natural Heritage rangers. Excellent. Leaves clogging the adjacent pavement, making it impossible to walk along, have been cleared away. Combined with branches being pruned from overhanging lime trees pedestrians are now able to walk along and view down to the river below. Years of unrestricted ivy growth has curled around the historic railings choking them and causing damage to the cast iron uprights. Ivy has also grown into the stone embankment wall below anchoring into the lime mortar. When ivy becomes...
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Doune Terrace Garden Railings To Be Restored

Saturday, 18 November, 2023 - 15:40
The feasibility study is currently being ammended and will be available shortly. As the last part of the Moray Feu railings, removed during WWII, the plan is to restore them to their original design using traditional methods The study was commissioned by a community group supported by Edinburgh World Heritage, Taft Architects and the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland along with local residents. This initiative continues the ongoing programme for renovation of the Dean Valley Designed Landscape, which is in the inventory of Gardens held by Historic Environment Scotland. This began in 2011 and included the renovation of St Bernard’s...
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