While wandering through the refined and
upmarket streets of Morningside in Edinburgh, I decided to pay a visit to a
place I’d come across once, a decade or so ago.
A place hidden away in a courtyard that is reached through a narrow lane
under a rather non-descript block of flats in Springvalley Gardens. A place I
assumed must have fallen to the developers wrecking ball, but surprise,
surprise, it was still there.
Once in the courtyard you could easily
think that you had walked into the remains of an old film set from some dodgy spaghetti
western, or should that be haggis western?
But no, this mock western façade was actually built in the 1990s to
advertise a store called The Great American Indoors. The business specialised in Santa Fe style
furniture. Something for which there was
obviously little demand in Edinburgh, given that it closed down years ago.
Now mainly derelict, which the exception
of a few workshops and garages, the place has taken on the dilapidated look of
a ghost town. Well, sort of, if you ignore the cars parked around the courtyard,
the blocks of flats towering over you and the roar of the traffic from nearby Morningside
Road.
I left the Skulferatu that accompanied
me on my walk in a gap in the wooden posts on one of the façades.
The coordinates for the location of the
Skulferatu are –
Latitude 55.92890
Longitude -3.210490
