LeithStNames

Old Leith Street Names

Names past and present before the changes

Here are the names of the streets that were in existence when we were children. Some may only be known to you and your area. So lets be having them.

Admiralty Street (Greg Maclean); Auchinleck`s Brae (Newhaven) (Robert Laidlaw); Auchinleck Court (Newhaven) (Wilma Stuart, nee Hannah, Robert( Bob) Hannah); Annfield: (Hannah Sommerville): Anderson Place; Annfield; Allan Street; Agnew Terrace; Albany Street; Academy Street (Morton Street); Albert St (Gil Fleming); Argyle St; (Carol Fraser); Assembly Street (David Pratt): Archibald Street, later became West Bowling Green Street when bridge was built in 1886. (Info by Richard Kent)

Bothwell Street (Ernie Chapman, Tom McLuskey); Baltic Street; Balfour Place; Balfour Street (John Furlong, Maureen Whitelaw, Jessie Wilson, nee Auld)); Buchanan Street (Karen Stewart, Pamela Stewart); Burlington Street (Phil Glancy); Bonnington Road (Billy Shepherd, Una Dickson, Frank Dickson); Bangor Road (Robert Wallace, Frank Condie, John Helliwell, Reg Ollay); Bangor Lane (Susan Mickleborough, James Meikle); Breadalbane Street; Bowling Green Street (Carol Ford, Gregor Munro, Mary Tunnah, James Scott, Irene Miller nee Dunn ); Broad Wynd; Brickwork Close (Francis Glover, John Henderson, Crawford Baxter); Bridge Street (William `Wee Deggy` Degnan, Robert (Bob) Hannah); Burns Street; Bernard Street; Bathfield Road; Burns Place; Ballantyne Road (Marion Crawford, Alice Hamilton, Frank Ferri); Bath Street (Harry Paterson); Ballantyne Pl.; (Christine Richardson nee Donaldson, Nancy McIntosh), ; Burgess St. (Carol Fraser)

Cadiz Street (Bill Macrae, Diane Glendinning);Caley Pend: Cables Wynd (John Stewart); Coalhill; Constitution Street, (Margaret Dewar;) Commercial Street; Coburg Street (Norma Brodie and Ruth McClounnan); Coatfield Lane; (Crawford Baxter) Crown Street (Ella Ross); Crown Place (Ella Ross):Cornhill Terrace; Corunna Place; Charlotte Street (now Queen Charlotte St.); Crown Place; Cuddy`s Brae; Craigmont Brae; Craighall Road; Corporation Buildings (Mary Anderson nee Lynch, ?? Robertson); Citadel Lane (Bron Stubbington) ; Couper Street; Cunningham Place (Dave Robertson); Cromwell Street (Dave Thomas); Cannon Street (Maggie Burdett, Eileen Black, Belinda Miller);

Duke Street (Bobby Emlay, Eric Kerr); Dalmeny Street; Dock Street (Isobel Webster); Dock Place; Dickson Street; Dudley Avenue; Darlings Brae; Duncan Street; Drum Terrace (Jim McCaskell); Dudley Gardens (Margo Fallis); Dudley Bank (Carol Fraser)

Elbe Street; Easter Road (Monty Currie, Jessie {Berry} Newlands, Donna Wilcox); East Cromwell Street (Alex Sandie, Betty O`Connor, nee Thomson); Elmwood Terrace (Jennifer Peters);

Fox Street; Ferrier Street (Alice Wilson nee Ward, Betty, Margaret, Catherine, Andrew Mcgrouther); Ferry Road; Fingzies Place; Foxes Lane; Fort Place (Willie Bell); Fishmarket Square (Newhaven); Finlay Gardens; Finlay Avenue (Anne and Patricia Mitchell);

Giles Street (Norma McFarlane, Hannah Spence- Thom, Robert Sneddon); Great Junction Street (Jim Laidlaw, Brian Greenyer); Gordon Street (James Meikle); Glover Street (Jimmy Duncan, Bobby Donaldson); Graham Street (Mina Greig (Cassie), Peter Clarke, Barbara McBain, Margaret Gaughan): George Street (Moira Kloos, George Myles); Gladstone Place;

Henderson Street (Elizabeth Condie nee Young); Henderson Gardens; Halmyre Street (Elizabeth Ainslie); Hawkhill; Hawthornvale (Harry Summers, Alexander Gunn, Lorna Duncan, John Robertson); Hermitage Park; Hope Street (Steven Oliver): Hamilton Street; (Bill Aldred); Hamburg Place: (Carol Fraser):

Iona Street (Jack Rippington); Industry Lane;

Jane Street; Junction Place; Jamieson Place; Janefield Place; Johnston Street; James Pl now Links Gardens (Harry Paterson);

Keddie Gardens; Kirkgate (June Hunter); Kirk Street (Rae Beatson nee Hume);

Lochend Road (Francis Glover); Lorne Street (Norma Ross n Dorward, Edna Court); Lorne Place; Lapicide Lane (?? Anderson); Lapicide Place (Morty Grant, Margaret Headley n Grieve); Links Place; Laurie Street; Largo Place (Moira Courtney, Christine Scotton nee Blair); London Row; Lindsay Road; Lochend Avenue, (Irene Miller nee Dunn}; Leith Walk (Jim Hall);

Mill Lane; Morton Street (now Academy St); Main Street (Newhaven) (Magnus Ganson); Manderston Street; Madeira Street (Graham Whyte); Madeira Place: (Crawford Baxter) Market Street (Sandra Cochrane (Johnson) ; Mitchell Street;

North Junction Street; North Fort Street (Wilma Stuart nee Hannah) ; Newhaven Road (Roy Cummings, Irene Davies, Maureen Logue); Noble Place;

Pirie Street; Portland Place; Prince Regent Street (Jim Speirs, Graham Whyte, Dorothy Glass, Helen Gibson nee Mackie, Wilma Stuart nee Hannah); Pilrig Street; Primrose Street (Peter Sellar, Keith Flockhart, David Mitchell, William Buchanan, James Riddell); Parliament Street; Poplar Lane; Parliament Square (Broad Pavement); Pitt Street (Henry & Nora Hamilton, Frank Robinson, Tom McLuskey,Wilma McLuskey ( Rennie) ); Pirniefield Bank (Grant Fyffe); Pirniefield Place (James Meikle); Patison Street (Harry Paterson): Portland Terrace (Carol Fraser, Crawford Baxter)

Quality Street; Queen Street; Queen Charlotte Street (Once Charlotte Street)

Ryehill Place (Anita Adams); Riddles Close; Restalrig Road (Jean Durie, Jack McKenzie); Rossie Place;

Springfield Street (Laureen Traynor); Steads Place; Salamander Street; Summerside Place; Sherrif Brae (Ann Atkinson nee Stewart); Sandport Street; St Andrew Street (Davina French, Lynne Sewell, Mary Lee- Walker); ; St John`s Place (Bay of Biscay?); Spiers Place; St Anthony Lane (James Meikle); Stanwell Place; Stanley Road; Storries Alley; Smith`s Place; Seafield Road (John Stewart); Sleigh Drive; South Fort Street; Summerfield Gardens (Andrew Brodie); Sloan Street (Robert Cooper): South Lorne Place (Brian & May Clark); St Clair Ave. (Jessie Wilson, nee Auld, Elayne Lowe nee Young); St James Pl., Newhaven (David Inglis): Seaton`s Close (Yardheads)

Thorntree Street; Timber Bush; Tennent Street (Alex Wallace & Tom Wallace, Murdoch Stewart, Willie Bell); Tolbooth Wynd (Gladys Boyd, Douglas Lothian); The Shore (Crawford Baxter); Tabernacle Court; Trafalgar Street; Trafalgar Lane; Turners Green; Tower Street; The Brae, Newhaven (Wilma McLuskey ( Rennie))

Union Street;

Vinegar Close; Victoria Shipyard, West Pier; Victoria Place (William Wilson)

Willowbank Row; Wellington Place; Wilkie Place; West Bowling Green Street; (Alan `Chuck` Chalmers, James Miller) Water Street (now Maritime St.) West Cromwell Street; White Wash; Waddel Place (Margaret Codona); West Cromwell St, (Jessie Forman now Lovell);

Yardheads; (Jackie Welsh)

Zetland Place;