Kinnaird Park / Fort Kinnaird, Edinburgh

It was built by a local man now deceased who was an Elvis fan - Elvis is in the middle with a "miner's hat" - and the plinths at the side with the other heads are made of various bricks with the inclusion of two slate inserts which carry a local coal seam name each. Most bricks are local, apart from an ETNA brick (Armadale, West Lothian).

Leave the A1 at the junction with A6095 north or southbound and follow signs for Kinnaird Park / Fort Kinnaird which is west of the A1. Take second exit (straight over) at the first roundabout and the arts centre is the old church as you arrive at the next roundabout. Massive car parks at Kinnaird Park. The art feature is just as you enter the gate at the roundabout.

Gilmerton

Gilmerton Crossroads

National Grid Reference NT 29482 68679

On the reddish front panel you will see the four sketches which are mining related.  The miner, the woman bearer, the ladder used in the steep Gilmerton coals and the profile of the now rehabilitated Glimerton Bing.

Oh happy happy "Play Days" Were ere such days as these?
The "Gala" and the "Trip Days" Alas, gang i the breeze
M McLean