English: Women waulking at Greenside on the western slope of the Calton Hill which was traditionally used as a bleachfield. The sight of young girls trampling clothes in tubs was regarded by young blades as a rather attractive, not to say vaguely indecent spectacle.

"...I shall take notice of one thing more, which is commonly to be seen by the sides of the river (and not only here, but in all the parts of Scotland where I have been), that is, women with their coats tucked up, stamping, in tubs, upon linen by this way of washing; and not only in summer, but in the hardest frosty weather, when their legs and feet are almost literally as red as blood with the cold; and often two of these wenches stamp in one tub, supporting themselves by their arms thrown over each other's shoulders." -- Cpt. Edmund Burt, Letters from A Gentleman in the North of Scotland, 1754 (see Slezer's view of Dundee in Theatrum Scotiae where this is shown [1] )