John McLellan
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Edinburgh Evening News editor John McLellan took over the paper
in 1997, having been its deputy editor for the previous four years.
He subsequently spent three years as editor of the Scotland on Sunday
before returning to edit the News for a second time in 2004. Born
in Glasgow in 1962, he was educated at Hutchesons’ Grammar
School and Stirling University. He now lives in Merchiston with
his wife Trish and three children. |
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OLD WOODEN BRIDGE OVER THE UNION CANAL AT LEAMINGTON ROAD, C1920
FRANCIS M CHRYSTAL ‘I live by the canal and so I’m naturally interested in anything to do with its past. With the exception of the old bridge, until very recently this view of the canal at Leamington had changed very little, although the church has been derelict for many years. Now modern flats are being built on the canal edge as part of the transformation of the basin and it’s not before time that new life is being breathed into the area.’ John McLellan The Union Canal was opened in 1822. It ran from Tollcross in Edinburgh
to meet the Forth and Clyde Canal at Falkirk, thus linking the capital
to Glasgow. After extensive renovation in the 1990s the Canal is
now a popular area for recreation, with non-commercial craft using
the waterway and many cyclists, walkers and runners using the towpath. |
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VIEW OF PORT HAMILTON ON THE UNION CANAL LOOKING TOWARDS MORRISON
STREET, C1920 ‘Situated just behind Gardner’s Crescent, Port Hamilton was swallowed up by the wave of changes that swept through this part of Edinburgh in the early part of the 20th Century. With so much development going on around what’s left of the canal in the city centre, had this still been in existence it would have been the focal point of a new development rather than filled in as an unwanted relic of the past.’ John McLellan Port Hamilton was built as an additional basin at the Edinburgh
end of the Union Canal. It was closed, along with Port Hopetoun,
in 1922 as canal trade declined.
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SCOTSMAN OFFICES, 1905 ‘I worked in the old Scotsman building in the 90s right up until the papers moved to their new home in Holyrood. The grandeur of the old place is still something that the few remaining old North Bridge hands miss. The building was not only a statement of confidence by The Scotsman’s owners in their title but it also symbolises the pre-eminent position of newspapers at that time, unchallenged by radio, TV or the internet. Down the Old Town skyline are the symbols of a great capital city: the power of the state in the Castle; established religion in New College; finance in the Bank of Scotland headquarters; civic organisation in the City Chambers and finally the Fourth Estate in The Scotsman building.’ John McLellan The former Scotsman buildings stand on the west side of North Bridge
in Edinburgh. They were built between 1899 and 1902 at a cost of
roughly £500,000, and were notable for their lavish interiors.
These buildings were occupied by the newspaper between 1904 and
1999 when it moved, along with the Scotland on Sunday and the Evening
News, to new purpose built premises at Holyrood.
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