Powderhall - for Paul Talling

Site of the former Powderhall dog racing and speedway track, Edinburgh

" Where the paddies and the frogs
Came to gamble on the dogs
Came to gamble on the dogs not long ago

Oh sweet city of my dreams
Of speed and skill and schemes
Like atlantis you just disappeared from view
And the hare upon the wire
Has been burnt upon your pyre
Like the black dog that once raced
Out from trap two"
- The Pogues - 'White City'

Part of the Waybook series