On a recent walk around the foot of Leith I came across Leith Dockers Club at No 17 Academy Street [this street was formerly known as Morton Street]. Behind a more recently built clubhouse, survives an old Georgian House. It has classic proportions with rising steps to the front door. This house is a survivor, and if it could sing would have its own shanties for us to hear. Alas, as buildings are inanimate, you will have to make do with this [incomplete] timeline that I have managed to ‘dredge’ from the archives.
4 December 1800, Petition by James Scott, merchant to build a house at the head of Leith Links:
1817 map of Leith by Robert Kirkwood:
1841 census, Morton Street, Leith:
1848 Ordnance Survey map:
1851 census, Morton Street, Leith:
25 August 1866, North Briton:
26 May 1882, The Scotsman:
1894 Ordnance Survey map:
9 January 1904, Edinburgh Evening Dispatch:
21 July 1903, Edinburgh Evening Dispatch:
21 August 1939, Edinburgh Evening Dispatch:
22 August 1939, Edinburgh Evening Dispatch:
1 November 1941, Edinburgh Evening News:
8 December 1941, The Scotsman:
26 January 1945, Edinburgh Evening News:
4 February 1948, Edinburgh Evening Dispatch:
1956 Ordnance Survey map:
1 December 1959, The Scotsman:
1 July 1978, The Scotsman:
Leith Links and Leith Dockers Club [AI sketches from a 1996 aerial photograph on Trove and from a 2019 Google Map image]:
