The Grange Trust was created in 1882 pursuant to the annexed Deed of Trust. The Trustees acquired the playing fields pursuant to a Disposition by Charles HAFCEJJ Rocheid of Inverleith in favour of William Moncrieff and Others as Trustees therein mentioned dated 11th and recorded in the Register of Sasine for the County of Edinburgh on 14th, both days of November 1882.

The Trust was then named the Grange and Academical Trust. The fields on the east side of Portgower Place were occupied by the Grange Cricket Club and Others and those to the west were occupied by the Edinburgh Academical Club. In the late 1970s the Academical Club acquired title to the subjects occupied by them and ceased to have any further interest in the remaining Grange Trust which continues to hold the land to the east side of Portgower Place.

Originally there were two separate clubs and one company who occupied parts of the land on the west side of Portgower Place. One of those, the Edinburgh Lawn Tennis Club, was liquidated many years ago and the subjects previously occupied by them were let to another tennis club, Dyvours Lawn Tennis Club. Another of the clubs, the Coates Curling Club, gave up its interest in the parts it occupied in the late 1930s. Subsequent to that the subjects previously occupied by the Coates Curling Club were occupied as a bowling club for the employees of Morrison & Gibb Limited, the property being let to Morrison & Gibb Limited by the Trust for a number of years. As their employee members diminished Morrison & Gibb assigned their lease to the Grange Cricket Club who sub-let it for a number of years to a bowling club named the Tanfield Bowling Club. When the original Morrison & Gibb lease assigned to the Grange Cricket Club came to an end a new lease for twenty-five years was granted to the Grange Club who continued to sub-let this to Tanfield Bowling Club. That lease too duly came to an end and a further lease was granted to the Grange Club but ultimately this was terminated by the Trustees in or around 2006. Since that date the Trustees altered the premises and let the former Bowling Club premises as a commercial children’s nursery except for a small balance of land kept in hand, originally destined for an indoor Sports Hall.