Radical Road (Right Wing) demolition underway

[Viva_Palmeiras]

Gordon Smith (one player I wish I’d seen play) owner the Right Wing pub in Willowbrae/Northfield

Soon it will be no more...

i have pics but can’t seem to upload them - getting failed message from iPhone...

[J-C]

I got told it was being turned into student flats.

[The Pointer]

The whole of Edinburgh seems to be getting turned into either student flats or hotels.

[worcesterhibby]

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The whole of Edinburgh seems to be getting turned into either student flats or hotels.

Was booking a hotel for my trip up to see the Rangers game last night and there is very little availability in the city. I book around 60 hotel rooms a year right round the country for work, and you can generally get something decent for about £80 everywhere except London...the average is more like £130 in Edinburgh for similar hotels and even then you have to find one with an available room !

[.Sean.]

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I got told it was being turned into student flats.

Surprise surprise. Building more affordable housing as opposed to accommodating more students would be nice, but that’s a different argument.

[neil7908]

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The whole of Edinburgh seems to be getting turned into either student flats or hotels.

It's a total joke. No issues with students, they and the university are important to Edinburgh but things are getting out of hand.

Why are student only flats getting built miles from any university? It hurts local communities and if you look at the prices for renting a single room, it's a total rip off for students!

[J-C]

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Surprise surprise. Building more affordable housing as opposed to accommodating more students would be nice, but that’s a different argument.

Don't know if it's true, just what I was told by the woman who works in the petrol station opposite, need more affordable flats for single people rather than student flats, my daughters trying to buy right now and if it wasn't for the LIFT scheme from the Government, she'd struggle to get a decent place.

[Carheenlea]

We used to drive into ER that way, and despite passing The Right Wing every week for many many years, never set foot in the place. Just too far away for a match day pub.

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We used to drive into ER that way, and despite passing The Right Wing every week for many many years, never set foot in the place. Just too far away for a match day pub.

Haven't been in it for years. Remember it as having less atmosphere than the moon.

[Brightside]

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Don't know if it's true, just what I was told by the woman who works in the petrol station opposite, need more affordable flats for single people rather than student flats, my daughters trying to buy right now and if it wasn't for the LIFT scheme from the Government, she'd struggle to get a decent place.

The Merc garage opposite was also meant to be turned into Student Flats but it was knocked back. Strange place for student flats.

[Bostonhibby]

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We used to drive into ER that way, and despite passing The Right Wing every week for many many years, never set foot in the place. Just too far away for a match day pub.

Used it a lot before games back in the day. Also been much more recently and found it a bit odd TBH. End of an era though.

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[Deansy]

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The whole of Edinburgh seems to be getting turned into either student flats or hotels.

One of my biggest bug-bears - student flats !. Here in the Southside it's getting more like a campus than one of Edinburgh's historic districts - they're ripping the heart out of the community !!

[Hillsidehibby]

The shop and post office next door are being demolished in August.

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Used it a lot before games back in the day. Also been much more recently and found it a bit odd TBH. End of an era though.

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Indeed. And a real sign of the end of an era is the imminent closure of the Post Office between The Right Wing and the old Merc garage. Sad times in Willowbrae.

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The shop and post office next door are being demolished in August.

You beat me to it.

[Swedish hibee]

They want student flats as they can rent them out at astronomical prices that rich parents will pay, and then rent them out at even more astronomical prices during the summer too.

[southfieldhibby]

Gordon Smith had the shop beside it too. When my mum was a young girl and my gran was a single parent, they were so poor they sometimes couldn't afford to buy food. Gordon Smith would give my gran enough food to see her and my mum and uncle through the week.

My gran is 98 and my mum passed away 8 years ago, neither had any interest in football beyond taking an interest in my love of Hibs. But mention Mr Smith to my gran, even to this day, and her faces lights up. He's a hero in my house, and it's got nothing to do with football.

[TAHibby]

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It's a total joke. No issues with students, they and the university are important to Edinburgh but things are getting out of hand.

Why are student only flats getting built miles from any university? It hurts local communities and if you look at the prices for renting a single room, it's a total rip off for students!

It's a ****ing joke and the prices were horrendous back when i was looking a few years ago, can't imagine what it's like now. Sadly the Oxbridge rejects and the wealthy students from abroad will pay whatever even if it's a few hundred a week

[J-C]

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The shop and post office next door are being demolished in August.

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You beat me to it.

I was told this also.

[Bostonhibby]

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Indeed. And a real sign of the end of an era is the imminent closure of the Post Office between The Right Wing and the old Merc garage. Sad times in Willowbrae.

Never knew that. Had a wee look in last time I was up staying in the lady nairn. Lots of change. Not convinced about student flats being the best option here but someone will be making money.

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[Mikers110]

Developers love student flats as the car parking requirements are far less onerous than general flatted developments. For inner city sites this almost makes general flats an uneconomic prospect for developers. This is a problem the planning department can't resolve due to planning law.

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It's a ****ing joke and the prices were horrendous back when i was looking a few years ago, can't imagine what it's like now. Sadly the Oxbridge rejects and the wealthy students from abroad will pay whatever even if it's a few hundred a week

That's assuming the students from abroad will still come, or be able to come.

[Centre Hawf]

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Gordon Smith had the shop beside it too. When my mum was a young girl and my gran was a single parent, they were so poor they sometimes couldn't afford to buy food. Gordon Smith would give my gran enough food to see her and my mum and uncle through the week.

My gran is 98 and my mum passed away 8 years ago, neither had any interest in football beyond taking an interest in my love of Hibs. But mention Mr Smith to my gran, even to this day, and her faces lights up. He's a hero in my house, and it's got nothing to do with football.

Hibs Class.

[BSEJVT]

Gordon was a gentleman, great story earlier in thread about him and doesn't surprise me one bit

I drank in there the night of the 79 Cup Final when underage drinking rules were a bit more relaxed than they are now :-)

Couldn't tell you where the nearest boozer that way would be now

Sheeps Heid probably?

The amount of boozers that have closed down in Edinburgh over the past 20 years is incredible.

Lots and lots of local communities without them now.

It is difficult to lament the passing of the boozers themselves but their demise has added hugely to the disintegration of what would once have been described as communities but are largely now dormitories where many of those living within them have zero interest in what goes on in them or in their fellow residents.

[GlesgaeHibby]

Shame to see it go. Been in there with the band a good few times and it was always a good gig, which was regularly followed with a short hop to the Barracuda next door for chips at the end of the night.

[Mr White]

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It's not half the pub it used to be.

[Pretty Boy]

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It's a total joke. No issues with students, they and the university are important to Edinburgh but things are getting out of hand.

Why are student only flats getting built miles from any university? It hurts local communities and if you look at the prices for renting a single room, it's a total rip off for students!

They'll market them as being 'ideal for Queen Margaret University'.

I think a lot of it comes down to the changing way people socialise. The couple of pints on the way home from work is a thing of the past. The idea students would have rented a flat miles from a cheap pub would have been laughable a decade or 2 ago but with cheap supermarket booze drinking at home or 'pre drinking' is what people do. Trips to pubs tend to be part of a bigger day out so involve travelling further than the 'local'.

I don't really like it but pubs don't close if they are busy. Many who lament the loss of pubs do little to support their own local.

[lord bunberry]

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Gordon was a gentleman, great story earlier in thread about him and doesn't surprise me one bit

I drank in there the night of the 79 Cup Final when underage drinking rules were a bit more relaxed than they are now :-)

Couldn't tell you where the nearest boozer that way would be now

Sheeps Heid probably?

The amount of boozers that have closed down in Edinburgh over the past 20 years is incredible.

Lots and lots of local communities without them now.

It is difficult to lament the passing of the boozers themselves but their demise has added hugely to the disintegration of what would once have been described as communities but are largely now dormitories where many of those living within them have zero interest in what goes on in them or in their fellow residents.

The Lady Nairne opposite is still open. Other than that it would be The Scotty and Broadfields.

[MyJo]

Lived at the bottom of the Hill on Northfield Drive for about ten years from the age of 9 and the big patch of grass at the back of the pub was our football pitch. Spent half my life there

Also worked in the post office for a while as a part-time job when I was a teenager. Kinda makes me feel old reading this and realising its all going to be gone.

[Hillsidehibby]

Had my first under age pint in there. A good Northfield & Bingham pub.