George Hackland walks around Leith in the 1930s

George Hackland was born in Newhaven in 1920 but worked in Leith from 1934 until the begining of World War Two. Here he evocatively describes the businesses, industry, shops and buildings in the Streets around where he worked in Dock Street. Recorded in 2013 at The Living Memory Assocation premises, right in the heart of the area George is describing.