Choose Life Choose Leith by Tim Bell sampler

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1. 397 Leith Walk: formerly Boundary
Bar.
2. 298 Leith Walk: formerly Tommy
Youngers Bar. Renton meets Begbie
in ‘Trainspotting at Leith Central
Station’.
3. 180 Leith Walk: formerly The
Volunteer Arms. Scene for ‘A
Disappointment’.
4. 7-9 Leith Walk: The Central Bar.
Taken to be the pub ‘at the Fit ay the
Walk’ in ‘Courting Disaster’.
5. 398 Easter Road: The Persevere Bar.
Scene at the end of ‘Na Na and Other
Nazis’.
6. 31 Duke Street: The Dukes Head.
7. 13 Duke Street: The Marksman. Davie
Mitchell boards the bus here in ‘Traditional
Sunday Breakfast’.
8. 17 Academy Street: Leith Dockers
Club. Scene at the end of ‘House
Arrest’.
9. 2 Wellington Place. Irvine Welsh lived
here.
10. New Kirkgate Shopping Centre. Renton
shops here in ‘The First Day of the
Edinburgh Festival’.
11. Trinity House.
12. South Leith Parish Church (Church of
Scotland).
13. St. Mary’s Star of the Sea Church
(Roman Catholic).
14. 58 Constitution Street: Port o’ Leith.
Bar where Welsh often met his writing
group; clearly re-named Port Sunshine
in Porno.
Leith map: annotations.
15. 44a Constitution Street: Nobles Bar
16. 63 Shore: formerly ‘the dole office’.
Spud sits near here in ‘Na Na and
Other Nazis’.
17. Cables Wynd House, better known as
the Banana Flats. Sick Boy lives here
(ref in ‘House Arrest’).
18. 23-24 Sandport Place: formerly The
Black Swan.
19. 43-47 North Junction St: The Vine Bar.
Presumably the pub referred to at the
end of ‘Station to Station’.
20. 72 North Fort St: formerly Halfway
House.
21. 284 Bonnington Road: formerly The
Bonnington Toll
Leith Central Station. The most emphatically
identified location in Trainspotting.
Scene of the ghostly figure’s remark: ‘keep
up the trainspottin mind’ in ‘Trainspotting at
Leith Central Station’.
Seafield crematorium and cemetery.
Taken to be the place of the funeral in ‘Memories
of Matty’.
Leith Academy. Renton and Begbie
attended school here.
Fort House. The Renton family used to
live here before moving to a flat ‘by the river’
(Water of Leith) (ref in ‘House Arrest’).