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Portobello is situated on the coast of the Firth of Forth, three miles east of Edinburgh on the old coast road to Berwick and the south. At the time of the survey, it was an independent town in Edinburgh-shire; it is now part of the City of Edinburgh. The name Portobello is unusual as it has a fairly modern derivation. It comes from the name of a h...
In the 1890s Portobello had two main streets, the Promenade and the High Street, both running parallel to the shore. A network of small streets lay between these two roads. To the west of High Street, the street pattern was less regular. The railway ran to the west of the town. The potteries appear to have been congregated at the northern end of th...
The Municipal Buildings, which had been built in 1878, were a fine example of the Scottish Baronial type of architecture. An architectural curiosity of the town was a tower built as a folly by a Mr Cunningham in the eighteenth century. It incorporated carved stones from elsewhere, including St Andrews.
Pottery was the major industry associated with Portobello. At this period there were three main potteries; Westbank, begun in 1770 by Hillcoat and from 1890 taken over by Peter Mitchell (sheet iv.5.5), Waverley Pottery, which from 1877 was known as A. W. Buchan and Co., and Scott Brothers. The Abercorn Brick and Tile works can also be seen on the s...
There was a Church of Scotland church built in 1810 in Melville Street (sheet iv.6.11). That church was enlarged in 1878. There was another Established church, a Free church (iv.6.12) built in 1875-7, two United Presbyterian churches built in 1879-80 and 1880 respectively, an Episcopal church built in 1828 and a Roman Catholic church built in 1835 ...
Hot and cold salt-water baths were built in 1806. A pier was built nearby in 1870-1; it had a restaurant and an observatory and was also used for promenade concerts. As well as religious and political groups, there were boating, curling and swimming clubs in the town. 1. Groome, Francis H. (ed.), 1894-5. The Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland; a survey...
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