Fountainbridge
Fountainbridge is an area of Edinburgh, Scotland, a short distance west of the city centre, adjoining Tollcross. The main streets through the area are Fountainbridge and Dundee Street. The Union Canal to the south and the route of the former Caledonian Railway to the north continue to define the area.
About Fountainbridge in brief
Fountainbridge is an area of Edinburgh, Scotland, a short distance west of the city centre, adjoining Tollcross. The main streets through the area are Fountainbridge and Dundee Street. The Union Canal to the south and the route of the former Caledonian Railway to the north continue to define the area. Prior to the mid-18th century the area was called Foulbridge: a name relating to a bridge crossing the Foul Burn, a rivulet connecting the Burgh Loch on the Meadows to the Water of Leith. From the early 19th century until the late 20th century Fountainbridge was home to two of Edinburgh’s major industries and a mixture of working-class tenement housing.
In 1973 a new Fountain Brewery was opened on the south side of Fountainbridge on the former site of the North British Rubber Company’s premises while the first Palladium cinema was built on the north side of the canal. In 1886 Cooke’s Royal Circus was built as a bottling plant for John Henry Cooke. It was demolished in 1911 and the first operating cinema was later built at Palladium in 1911, operating as a cinema and later a cinema.
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