“EDINBURGH’S HIDDEN HAMLET” is the Scottish Daily Express headline.
22nd August 1939

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1939 – ” THREE VIEWS of the Dean Village, Edinburgh, where 85 houses are considered insanitary by Alan Watt Ritchie, Edinburgh’s chief sanitary inspector. (Above) Legget’s tanworks and Water of Leith.
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