The oddball venture that saw abandoned Edinburgh tunnel filled with mushrooms [EdinburghLive]





Date: 05/04/2023

Starting in the late 1880s, piles of manure were dumped in Edinburgh's abandoned Scotland Street Tunnel to kick-start what would prove to be a highly-lucrative mushroom cultivating enterprise.


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Sign above a hole in the north wall at Waverley (formerly Canal Street) in 2004. The tunnel once took the EL&N through to Scotland Street see image [[14741]].
Location: Scotland Street Tunnel
Company: Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway
02/06/2004 John Furnevel
North portal of Scotland Street Tunnel from the site of the former station in May 2007.
Location: Scotland Street
Company: Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway
27/05/2007 John Furnevel


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