Leith the future of the station is currently in doubt. Leith is home to Leith Academy, one of the oldest schools in Scotland, and to the Leith School of Art, which along with Glasgow School of Art is one of only two independent art schools in Scotland. Leith is also home to The Queen's former floating Royal residence, The Royal Yacht "Britannia", now a five-star visitor attraction and evening events venue permanently berthed at Ocean Terminal. Irvine Welsh had his Channel 4 drama "Wedding Belles" (2007) filmed in Henderson Street. Welsh's novel "Trainspotting" and its prequel, "Skagboys" concern a group of
Irving A. Leonard Irving A. Leonard Irving Albert Leonard (December 1, 1896 in New Haven, Connecticut – October 1, 1996 in Alexandria, Virginia) was an American historian and translator, specialising in Hispanic history and art. His best known publications are "Books of the Brave" (1949) and "Baroque Times in Old Mexico: Seventeenth-Century Persons, Places and Practices" (1959), which won the Conference on Latin American History award for the best book in English. "Books of the Brave", a valuable account of the introduction of literary culture to Spain's New World, was updated in 1992. He had many papers published in the "American Historical Review"