The Old Brig, Musselburgh

A view towards the River Esk and the modern bridge from the Old Brig at Musselburgh, East Lothian, on 21st June, 2026.
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Late afternoon in North Berwick

A southward view along Victoria Road, North Berwick, towards Berwick Law in the late afternoon of 29th October, 2025.
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Dunbar

A north-westward view along Dunbar High Street in the sunny afternoon of 1st August, 2022, with the old tolbooth on the right.
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The Bass Rock

A fabulous photo of the Bass Rock seen on Flickr on 17th June, 2017. [Paul Rose]

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Port Seton

An eastward view along Port Seton High Street on 23rd April, 2024. This is a very picturesque seaside village with plenty of lovely old buildings, but satisfactory photographs were rendered impossible by the multitude of cars everywhere.
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Beautiful Haddington

An eastward view along Haddington High Street on 10th May, 2016.
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Longniddry
It took me a while, but I eventually managed to get a grip and get moving today. I took a bus out to Cockenzie in East Lothian, and walked purposefully from there along the shore to Longniddry, up to Longniddry Station, and from there along the old Haddington Branch to Haddington. I would guess I covered about ten miles in around two-and-a-half hours, including a climb of 300 feet from the shore at Longniddry to the highest point on the old railway. In theory, that shouldn't have been enough to leave me hobbling like a cripple, but that's exactly what I'm doing! A few years ago I was thinking about walking the West Highland Way from Milngavie to Fort William. It's 96 miles altogether and I'd have had to cover between ten and twenty miles each day, including long, steep hills. Going by my present level of fitness, there's no way I could have done it.

I took a few photos on my travels, though for most of my walk the sky was dismal and grey and rain never seemed far away.


A rubber glove tree seen at Longniddry Bents, East Lothian, on 1st July, 2013.
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Dunbar

A north-westward view along the High Street in Dunbar, East Lothian, on 23rd July, 2012.
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Tyninghame

Massive concrete blocks, intended to frustrate a German invasion in World War II, amongst the trees by the shore near Tyninghame, East Lothian, on 2nd October, 2007.
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Prestonpans
It's been another warm and sunny day today and I was determined to make the most of it, but I couldn't think where I could go that I either haven't already visited multiple times, or that is within reasonable travelling-distance. Then it occurred to me that the laburnum trees were in bloom when I visited Kirkcaldy yesterday, and that I'd been meaning to revisit the laburnum arch at Preston Tower in Prestonpans ever since my last visit there in 2010. So I headed down to Waverley Station and got on the first train for Prestonpans, which is the third station out from Waverley on the line to Dunbar and Berwick-upon-Tweed; the journey only takes about fifteen minutes. Unfortunately, when I got to Preston Tower, I found that I'd arrived perhaps a week too early to see the laburnum arch at its best: the laburnums weren't in full bloom yet. Nevertheless, Prestonpans is a lovely old place, full of big trees and ancient, high stone walls, and all the more beautiful in the fabulous weather.


A mass of poppies in bloom by the approach path to Prestonpans Station on 16th May, 2019.
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Preston Tower

Cherries ripening on a tree in the grounds of Preston Tower, Prestonpans, on 8th July, 2010. There were masses of them but the wind was blowing the branches all over the place, so it was rather difficult to get the cherries in frame and in focus!
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Canada geese in Musselburgh

A view down the River Esk from the Bridge Street bridge in Musselburgh on 12th October, 2017.
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East Coast FM East Lothian Music Festival at the Corn Exchange, Haddington
East Coast FM East Lothian Music Festival featuring Sad Society at the Corn Exchange, Haddington, on 29th May, 2010.


Poster for the East Coast FM East Lothian Music Festival featuring Sad Society at the Corn Exchange, Haddington, on 29th May, 2010.
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To Musselburgh on my bike
Photos taken during a run on my bike to Musselburgh, an attractive East Lothian town which now forms an eastern suburb of Edinburgh.


Floral beds by the River Esk at Musselburgh on 11th April, 2010.
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A day in sunny Dunbar

A south-eastward view along Lamer Street, Dunbar, from Victoria Street on 26th March, 2018.
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Fisherrow Harbour

Boats in Fisherrow Harbour, Musselburgh, circa October 2003.
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North Berwick

The door of a house in Victoria Road, North Berwick, East Lothian, on 30th September, 2003.
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bugger
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/5341736.stm

"East Lothian council is to resume regular street-sweeping in Tranent despite original plans to hold out until the weekend."

Why have they capitulated? Pressure from the local community? Pressure from "voters"? I think they should have held out: there is a problem, and it needs to be solved.
An early capitulation means that they'll be steamrollered again... its opened a weakness.

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You may have seen this over in Edinburgers

"Over the next few months, East Lothian Council will withdraw the service from a number of town centres."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/5316054.stm

I hope it works - our countryside is shocking!!

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