Niddrie. Progress?

Filmed in Feb 2007 this film shows the empty, derelict buildings round Niddrie which is on the east side of Edinburgh. Surprisingly, there are a few houses still occupied which you can see in the clip. The whole area is planned for redevelopment.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Art Space Craigmillar
• Niddrie Marschial School
• white house pub
• castle tavern pub
• massive attack
• black milk

[early1900s]

Not been up that way for a while, are those flats torn down now? You are brave, driving through those parts of Niddrie, saying that it is daytime so not quite so bad...

[fotoburd]

@early1900s No bother driving through it. I walked through it for most of my life.

[lensbear]

welcome to loserville.what a fucking slum.people of niddrie want to be ashamed of thereselfs for turning there are into a fucking shitehole.ANIMALS

[fotoburd]

not everyone who lived there turned it into a shithole/

[soundation]

WE have very much the same sort of dereliction in Liverpool. Although, the houses/ estate in the film reveals how much green space you had between the properties!

[fotoburd]

There were houses there, they got knocked down/burned down a few years before the ones you see in the video.

[Guardian016]

I was a foreign tourist wandering into this place. I just thought that scenery was absolutely beautiful and want to go back to take as many pictures as possible.

Is the security really bad around there, and why are there so many derelict buildings in that area? I can't find much information on the internet. It's a big mystery to me.

[marty25123]

I see an Adult learning centre in this video, pity nobody goes to it to learn about life, education, working etc., I can bet you that the Dole office is much busier!? And to think , the unemployment is at around 85% in Niddrie alone! SHAME SHAME SHAME!

Great Video though and I love the music!

[bennyfaethebrig]

@MrRag87 lived in craigmillar from 97 till 03. i left with a heavy heart . Even as a Glaswegian i was made to feel welcome. 5 minute walk from deprivation you have Craigmillar Castle, Views to die for and thank god yer alive! And now i'm down south in Stockport, a so- called affluent area of England.. Sir Alex and Wayne live a few miles from me , but it doesnt hold the riches i took from Niddrie. let it flourish

[bennyfaethebrig]

@lensbear thats why trainspotting was set in Leith i spose?

[RollingPeople97]

@liamchalmers Aw here we go...

[RollingPeople97]

@Guardian016 Not too beautiful if you live there though.

[MrRag87]

in both those places, I now live in Craigmillar and such a difference compared to the other so called respected areas of Edinburgh. People are evidently jealous that we have a beautiful art deco building that was refurbed and has not been vandalised despite everyone from outside the area saying/hoping it would just so they could say, Told you so!! Portobello in particular is full of wannabe posh people. A seaside town littered with dog shit on every pavement and graffiti everywhere you look

[MrRag87]

notice all the idiots commenting claiming to know so much when in reality the knowledge of this area is zilch!! I know a lot of people who have come from niddrie and they are the most decent and honest people I know, just a shame so many assume that everyone sponges of the social and shoots up on every street corner!! Far from the reality from what I recal, I grew up in East lothian, I moved out of my parents hose to Live in Leith, then I moved on to Portobello. found there to be more problems

[xDanielC2197x]

NIDDRIE ! Ewwww absolute minging place to live!

[dallasbabexx]

Most eh all the houses r done now n theyv cleans up craigmiller quite a bit ti it looks a million times Better :Dx

[surelythisnameworks]

The William Hill is in rude health at least....