through the first part of the 20th. century, the area was composed of tenement buildings many of which did not have internal toilet facilities. by the 1960s many of these buildings had become dilapidated, and resultingly the buildings were demolished and the tenants moved to new estates in craigmillar, the inch, liberton, prestonfield, restalrig, burdiehouse, gracemount, gilmerton and other areas of edinburgh. ian rankin called the rebuilt tenement area "greenfield" in his novel "dead souls" (1999):