The buildings and cobbled streets look much the same, as do the bustling pedestrians and hazy skies of Edinburgh. Yet 66 years ago, Rose Street was much different than visitors and residents know it today.
Edinburgh World Heritage charts an ever-changing thoroughfare. It states: “In the 19th century Rose Street gained a reputation as a seedy backwater, not a place for the respectable to be seen after dark.”
The perception began to change in the 1960s, four short years after independent Scottish filmmaker Margaret Tait filmed her homage to Edinburgh’s busy, working class Rose Street.
