Welcome to Leith Walks, home of the original Trainspotting Tours and the book Choose Life. Choose Leith: Trainspotting on Location by Tim Bell, published by Luath Press.
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From the Blog
Scottish drugs deaths – denial of the problem
Just too late to join the row about the record-breaking illegal drug deaths in Scotland, here's a letter I didn't send to the press. Recent correspondence is quite right to point out that the cause of the scale of the Scottish drug-related deaths is official denial,...
read moreCall this maintenance? Where’s the accountability?
Last week I sent this image of weeds the whole length of the gutter of our street, dense and up to almost 2 feet high, to my MSP and councillors. I asked them for a well-informed opinion on how it has got to this stage. Ben MacPherson MSP (SNP) said it was a Council...
read moreLeith – the 60-year story of neglect leading to Trainspotting
I'm very proud to be asked by the Council to make a presentation of 100 years of Leith history. ME! I've only been here forty years. Researching it, I was struck again by how much was being lost to the community of Leith in the run-up to the end of the 1980s, which...
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