The High Green as it looked in the year 1860c with a row of white washed cottages
1860
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and washing hung out on the line drying.
(Photograph taken by Thomas Begbie : Previously up until the mid 1890s the Dean Village was called “The Water of Leith Village” to date no one knows who was responsible for the name change).
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