Old Photographs Of Joppa Edinburgh Scotland

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Joppa, on the north coast of the Firth of Forth, a suburb of Edinburgh. Joppa is now largely residential, but salt was once produced from sea water by evaporation at Joppa Pans. Practically nothing remains of the industrial buildings. In 1789 Christopher Girtanner is noted as having a salt manufactory at Joppa Pans. The station opened in 1859 by the North British Railway. The Joppa railway station was closed to both passengers and goods traffic on 7 September 1964. The station building remains, however the platforms have been removed. Joppa Parish Church, formerly St Philip's Church, is situated on the corner of Brunstane Road North. On 16 October 1939 the German Luftwaffe made a daylight air raid up the Forth to bomb British battleships, HMS Edinburgh, HMS Mohawk and HMS Southampton, at Rosyth across the Firth of Forth in Fife. This was the first daylight air raid on Britain. Houses in Morton Street, Joppa, were damaged as a result of the bombing. The German pilots shot down during the raid were buried, following a ceremony at St Philip's Church, in nearby Portobello Cemetery which lies on Milton Road East. They were the first enemy casualties of the Second World War to be buried on British soil. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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