Scotland''s first city ''then'' - with archive photography - and ''now''; from the changing face of the Royal Mile...; ...to the transformation of Leith port; Wonderful visual guide to Edinburgh from the 19th century to today
Published here for the first time, this text presents a collection of recently-discovered stories by John Fante.
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Scotland''s first city ''then'' - with archive photography - and ''now''; from the changing face of the Royal Mile...; ...to the transformation of Leith port; Wonderful visual guide to Edinburgh from the 19th century to today
Published here for the first time, this text presents a collection of recently-discovered stories by John Fante.
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Published here for the first time, this text presents a collection of recently-discovered stories by John Fante.
About the Author
Jennifer Veitch is a former Scottish Young Journalist of the Year. She has worked for almost all of the Scottish print media including The Aberdeen Evening Express, The Scotsman, The Daily Record and was Assistant Editor of the Edinburgh Evening News until 2005. She now works as a freelance journalist and author. Her first book was 'Living Memories: A Portrait of Edinburgh in the Last Century' . She lives in Edinburgh and is a member of the Cockburn Association, Edinburgh’s Civic Trust.
Edinburgh Then and Now visually charts the city from the 19th century, with its smoky Victorian reputation as ''Auld Reekie'', to its twenty-first century present. Using atmospheric archive photography dating back to the early 1860s, the book shows the evolution of the city through the Victorian and Edwardian eras, two World Wars and touches on the social and political upheavals of the 1960s right up to the building of the new Scottish parliament. Some 70 historic photographs of Edinburgh''s past are paired with specially commissioned contemporary views taken from the same vantage point. You can see the same streets, buildings and docks as they were ''then'' and as they are ''now''.It includes both old and new parts of the city, plus the historic port of Leith and its recent attraction, the Royal Yacht Britannia. At its heart is the Royal Mile, with nearby St Giles Cathedral and Law Courts, the Royal Museum of Scotland, Surgeon''s Hall and McEwan Hall all featured. There are old vistas of George Street, Cockburn Street, the Scott Memorial, Princes Street, Queen Street, St Andrew Square, Edinburgh Castle and The Mound, and Leith docks.Part of the bestselling ''Then and Now'' series, this charming contrast of old and new photographs highlights the stunning changes - and the equally amazing similarities - of one of the most loved cities in Britain, its well-known places but also some of its hidden gems.
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