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Before you visit
Happening Here
Language For Fun: French Conversation Classes for Adults
Leith Depot · Leith
13:30
French conversation classes for adults at Leith Depot. Email the venue-listed contact for details.
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The pub’s story
Leith Depot’s history is contemporary and communal rather than an invented transport-depot origin. Project Scotland reports that the independent bar, restaurant and music venue had been based at this Leith Walk location since 2015. CAMRA records that it was saved from demolition in 2019, then expanded in 2023 into an adjoining accessible events room with its own small bar. The List gives the reopening a sharper date: the new ground-floor venue opened on 19 January 2023. Later reporting confirms a new lease and wider footprint at the refurbished Red Sandstone building. The operator describes active Music Venues Alliance and Music Venue Trust work, publishes access details and records Best Bar None recognition in 2023 and 2024. This is a live example of a venue surviving redevelopment pressure, then reshaping its premises for grassroots performance. Not evidence that the bar itself once functioned as a transport depot.
What to notice
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The accessible events room is a 2023 expansion beside the original bar/restaurant rather than a separate historic venue.
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The operator says ramps are available at the main entrance, venue door and stage, and that there is an accessible unisex toilet; contact it ahead for specific access needs.
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The ‘Depot’ name is not evidence of a former transport function. This record documents the venue’s contemporary survival and music-community history instead.
The time rail
The building, the pub and its interior may date from different periods. The timeline keeps documented dates separate from tradition.
Project Scotland reports Leith Depot had been based at this Leith Walk location since this year.
CAMRA records that the pub was saved from demolition.
The List reports the opening of the new accessible ground-floor events space beside the existing bar and restaurant.
Project Scotland reports a new lease, expanded footprint and the refurbished Red Sandstone building’s opening onto Leith Walk.
The operator records Gold standard and Edinburgh Cup recognition in the Best Bar None awards.
The operator records a Best Bar None national award.
The operator publishes current bar, restaurant, venue, access and weekly opening information.
Sources & confidence
The operator’s home, venue and history pages establish the independent identity, refurbishment, accessibility and campaign story. CAMRA independently corroborates the 2019 rescue and 2023 expansion. No source found supports treating the name as proof of an historic transport-depot use, so that inference is excluded.
Research reviewed
- About UsLeith Depotofficial
SupportsCurrent bar, restaurant and venue identity, Music Venues Alliance involvement, access information, awards claims and weekly opening hours.
- Venue details, conditions and technical specificationLeith Depotofficial
SupportsCurrent performance-space, access, stage, toilet and visitor-arrival information.
- Leith Depot, EdinburghCAMRAspecialist
SupportsIndependent record of the 2019 rescue from demolition and 2023 expansion into an adjoining accessible live-events space.
- Leith Depot set to reopen new venue spaceThe Listeditorial
SupportsThe January 2023 relaunch and 19 January opening of the new accessible ground-floor events venue.
- Red letter day as refurbished building opens onto Leith WalkProject Scotlandeditorial
SupportsThe venue’s 2015 presence, new lease, expansion and place within the refurbished Red Sandstone building.
