Granny's Green Steps

Granny’s Green Steps
There seem to be hundreds of steps throughout central Edinburgh and today I must have climbed about a thousand including 92 (I think) here.
I had thought these steps leading up from the end of the Grassmarket were named after a woman but the recently rebuilt steps are named after a drying green. Halfway up the steps is the green where local residents and those living in the married soldiers’ quarters at Johnston Terrace at the top used to hang their washing to dry and part of the old defensive Flodden Wall lies beside the steps. After years of neglect it has been cleared to make a community garden to commemorate the visionary town planner Patrick Geddes who did so much to improve the conditions in the slums of Edinburgh.


(Steps 8)