An English Student’s Street Photographs of Edinburgh In the 1950s and 1960s – Design You Trust

An English Student’s Street Photographs of Edinburgh In the 1950s and 1960s

Raeburn Place, Stockbridge, 1965
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Robert Blomfield’s photographs take us to Edinburgh between 1957 and 1966. Born in Leeds in 1938, Bloomfield studied medicine in Scotland’s capital. He took pictures for pleasure, recording things that caught his eye. Never exhibited during his lifetime, once his prints were dry, Robert would be put them into their yellow Kodak boxes.

In 1999, Blomfield gave up photography and his career as a doctor after a stroke left him paralysed. He retired to Yorkshire and died in December 2020.

h/t: flashbak

March 1966
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Forth Road Bridge under construction, 1962
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Student Union, Teviot Row House, 1961
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Stockbridge, 1966
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Salisbury Street, 1960
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Robert Blomfield
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Riego Street, Tollcross, 1965
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Littlewoods, Princes Street, 1965
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June 1965
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India Place, Stockbridge, 1965
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Harrison Park, 1960
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Edinburgh Castle from Princes Street, 1960
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Edinburgh, 1966
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Calton Hill, 1964
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Bookmaker outside Aird’s Bar, Arthur Street, 1960
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April 1966, Edinburgh
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April 1966, Edinburgh
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