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Cables Wynd was create in 1962 but before then it was a distillery. The construction of Cables Wynd created dramatically improved housing for the residents that first moved in as they had been living in slum like conditions prior to this. Sadly by the 1980’s the building was renowned for drug abuse and seen as a centre of a heroin epidemic within Leith...