Thursday April 3rd 2025
Written by Midlothian View Reporter, Liam Eunson
Tucked away in one of Edinburgh’s suburbs is a time capsule transforming you back in time. In the heart of the Morningside area is a street that will make you think you are in the Wild West.
Wild West, Morningside is one of the most unusual attractions in the city being a replica of a traditional hight street you would see in the American Wild West.
Entering through an alley way on Springvalley Gardens, a side street just off the main Morningside Road, you travel into a Wild West high street in amongst tenement buildings. Being a mix of functional trade businesses and empty buildings, the street is labelled with all you’d expect from the traditional the Wild West from Taverns to an old school jail.
The street was transformed in the early 1990’s by Michael Faulkner. Michael moved to Edinburgh to start a furniture store in Morningside and after spending time working in a ranch in North America, when he arrived in Scotland renovated the existing store that was in the alley way to replicate his time spent in America as a promotional tool for his business with the help from engineers who built attractions at Disneyland Paris. The store went bankrupt in 1999, leaving the empty buildings as an attraction for locals and tourists.
Upon visiting the unique attraction, the alley way is home to garages and workshops with some being within the Wild West façade. A 30 second walk from Morningside’s main street, the alley way will teleport you back in time, being an unusual site amongst Edinburgh’s traditional attractions. Being a TripAdvisor attraction, it is a unique experience, being something you would never expect within Morningside.
Despite this, the attraction has no interaction as you are unable to go inside the building, just being a unique area to walk around. This unheard-of area is definitely something unique, tucked away in Morningside, taking you on a trip back to the American Wild West.
Watch Liam’s Wild West video below.
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