CRAIGMILLAR ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE TRAIL

This trail is part of the World Community Arts Day 17 02 09.
www.communiversity.org.uk/worldcommunity artsday.htm

CRAIGMILLAR ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE TRAIL

Due to interest and folk asking we are developing The Craigmillar Arts and Culture Trail (have been doing a Public Art Tour since 2001). A guided tour will take 90 minutes. Can go on foot or transport. This trail shows how Craigmillar, in Edinburgh, became Scotland’s fifth most deprived area.

Introduction
1137 saw Robert III grant the rich fertile lands of Niddry (now Craigmillar) to Gilbert Wauchope; a mercenary of French origin. Later he was to discover that below the land lay vast reserves of coal: black gold. For centuries whole families burrowed in the bowels of the earth to provide generations of Wauchopes with vast wealth. This gave them the power of life and death over those whose labour they exploited.

Craigmillar is rich in history, but it was the Housing (Scotland) Act 1925 which created "housing for the working classes of Scotland'. Edinburgh Council bought this land from The Wauuchope family through this act to create The Craigmillar Housing Scheme to house "the working classes" to give them decent housing. Thus Craigmillar became a 100% "working class" area that has developed a rich artistic culture that has influenced many around the world.

1. Newhailes House
2. Bill Douglas Plaque and Bridge
3. Balfour Fountain
4. Mining Sculpture
5. Craigmillar Art Centre
6. Niddrie Burn
7. Monument to Gen Wauchope.
8. Hayes High Chair Sculpture
9. Jack Kane Centre
10. Niddrie Standing Stone
11. Wauchope Cemetery
12. Wauchope Vault
13. Wauchope Ice House
14. Site of Battle of Niddrie Edge
15. Gulliver sculpture
16. Public Library
17. Robin Chapel’s
18. Richmond Church
19. Children’s House Nursery
20. The Maxwell Murall
21. Adventure Playground
22. Craigmillar College Settlement
23. Monument for unknown baby
24. Niddrie Marischal School
25. The Whitehouse Roadhouse
26. Peffermill House
27. Peffermill Industrial Estate
28. Craigmillar Castle

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items are from between 08 Jul 2006 & 21 Feb 2008.