A former village serving several farms and estates in the area, in the 19th century it developed as a residential suburb, thanks to the arrival of a railway service and other transport improvements.
Morningside is now a local government ward with a population of around 33,000 people living in a mixture of villas, tenement flats and more modern housing – all centred around the main shopping street of Morningside Road.
We’ve trawled through our picture archives to bring you photos of Morningside through the years.
Tramlines, now long-since closed, in the cobbles close to Morningside Road. in Edinburgh.
Passengers leaving the busy platform at Morningside Station, Edinburgh in 1961.
A view of Church Hill shopping centre, during the Church Hill shopping festival in the 1960s.
Photo: Stan Warburton
Children sit in a tiered or “galleried” classroom at South Morningside School in the 1950s.
A view of Morningside showing the area along Comiston Road. Cluny Church is at the bottom right of the photograph.
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