Meadowbank, Edinburgh

[1] The stadium closed in 2017 and was redeveloped as a local sports and athletics facility that was officially opened on 4 November 2022.

The retail park was built in the early 1990s and occupies the former site of a foundry on London Road and a former seven storey Malt house.

[6][7] Meadowbank lies to the east of central Edinburgh, bordering Abbeyhill on its western side.

[9] On 29 August 1851, Queen Victoria arrived at the station and was met by a large military escort and crowds.

[11] Duncan Shaw, a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland grew up in a tenement flat in Meadowbank.