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Home Street - looking east from Tollcross
Hamilton, J. R., 1914, Photograph
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Home Street - looking east from Tollcross
Home Street - looking east from Tollcross
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Title
Home Street - looking east from Tollcross
Description
A busy street scene in Edinburgh with traffic and pedestrians at the junction of Home Street, Lauriston Place and the original route of High Riggs. The vehicles on the cobblestone road are a tram, horse and carts and a cyclist on a bicycle. On the end walls of tenement buildings there are advertising posters and on street level there is a mix of bars and shops. Visible are two barbers poles along with a canopy over a window.
Artist / maker
Hamilton, J. R.
Date
1914
Size
9 x 11.7 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
This is a photograph by a member of the Edinburgh Photographic Society.
This view in fact seems to be of the junction of High Riggs and the west end of Lauriston Place. This section of Lauriston Place has changed its name several times and may have been considered as an extension of Home Street at this time.
Tollcross is an area in the south-west of central Edinburgh. It centres around the crossroads of Brougham Street, Home Street, Earl Grey
Street and Lauriston Place and West Tollcross.
The word cobble has been used here to help with searching, an alternative term is sett. Sett stones describe both the type of stone and the method in which they are used.
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