Old and New Edinburgh Vol. VI

All Books Kay's Originals Vol. 1 Kay's Originals Vol. 2 Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time Edinburgh Past and Present Old and New Edinburgh Vol. I Old and New Edinburgh Vol. II Old and New Edinburgh Vol. III Old and New Edinburgh Vol. IV Old and New Edinburgh Vol. V Old and New Edinburgh Vol. VI

Go to: « Kay's Originals Vol. 1 « Kay's Originals Vol. 2 « Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time « Edinburgh Past and Present « Old and New Edinburgh Vol. I « Old and New Edinburgh Vol. II « Old and New Edinburgh Vol. III « Old and New Edinburgh Vol. IV « Old and New Edinburgh Vol. V Old and New Edinburgh Vol. VI Plates Ch 20: Leith - Historical Survey (continued) Ch 21: Leith - Historical Survey (continued) Ch 22: Leith - Historical Survey (concluded) Ch 23: Leith - The Kirkgate Ch 24: Leith - The Kirkgate (concluded) Ch 25: Leith - Tolbooth Wynd and Adjoining Streets Ch 26: Leith - Rotten Row, Broad Wynd, Bernard Street, Baltic Street, and Quality Street Ch 27: Leith - Constitution Street, The Shore, Coal Hill, and Sheriff Brae Ch 28: North Leith Ch 29: Leith - The Links Ch 30: Leith - The Sands Ch 31: Leith - The Harbour Ch 32: Memorabilia of the Shipping of Leith and its Maritime Affairs Ch 33: Leith - The Docks Ch 34: Inchkeith Ch 35: Newhaven Ch 36: Wardie, Trinity, and Granton Ch 37: The Environs of Edinburgh Ch 38: The Environs of Edinburgh (continued) Ch 39: The Environs of Edinburgh (continued) Ch 40: The Environs of Edinburgh (continued) Ch 41: The Environs of Edinburgh (continued) Ch 42: The Environs of Edinburgh (continued) Ch 43: The Environs of Edinburgh (concluded) General Index Contents List of Illustrations

Leith the additional accommodation required by its shipping and commercial interests, including the provision of a low-water pier.? These engineers, after a careful survey, failed to agree in opinion, and recommended three different plans-Mr. Walker two, and Mr. Cubbitt one. The details of only that to which the Lords of the Treasury gave preference, and which was one of Mr. Walker?s, need not be stated, as they were never fully carried out, and in 1847 a Government THE EDINBURGH DOCK, LEITH. The Victoria Dock was formally opened by the steamer RoyaZ Yiciorid (which traded between Leith and London), which carried the royal standard of Scotland at her mainmast head, but there was no public demonstration, In 1860 the Harbour and Docks Bill passed the House of Lords on the 19th of July. This Act cancelled the debt of about ~230,000 due to the Treasury for a present payment of ~50,000, The passing of this measure, and its commercial imgrant of L135,ooo was obtained for a new dock by the new Commissioners, under whose care the entire property continued to prosper, while trade continued to increase steadily; thus the accommodation for shipping was further enlarged by the opening in 185 2 of the Victoria Dock (parallel with the old dock), having an area of about five acres, with an average depth of twenty-two feet of water. Here berthage has constantly been provided for the London and Edinburgh Shipping Company?s fleet,-.and for most of Currie and Co.?s Contineatal trading steamers. It was contracted for by Mr. 3 9 , of Scarborough, who finished the piers about the same time as the dock; but the Victoria Jetty was not constructed till 1855. portance to Leith, was celebrated there by displays of fireworks and the ringing of the church bells. In the lapse of a few years after the opening of the Victoria Dock, the trade of the port had increased to such an extent that the construction of a still larger and better dock than any it yet possessed became necessary. Thus the Commissioners feIt justified in making the necessary arrangements with that view. Consequently, in 1862, Mr. Rendell, C.E, London, and Mr. Robertson, C.E., Leith, in accordance with instructions given to them, submitted a plan, by which it was proposed to reclaim no less than eighty-four acres of the East Sands (the site of the races of old) by means of a gxeaf

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