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David McLean

The abandoned Edinburgh plan to demolish all of Princes Street

Post-war Edinburgh was in flux, with plans afoot to eradicate the slums of old and transform the city for the decades ahead.

One radical idea which attracted much attention was a proposal to raze all existing buildings on Edinburgh's main shopping thoroughfare, Princes Street, and start from scratch.

READ MORE - The forgotten Edinburgh motorway plan that would have destroyed the Old Town

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