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231-237 The Canongate
Unknown, 1927, Photograph
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231-237 The Canongate
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7624
Title
231-237 The Canongate
Description
Tenement buildings and shops on the Canongate, Edinburgh. The shops include a newsagent and a confectioner. Some children stand beside a pram outside the newsagent. The billboard outside the newsagent announces that there is a "Clue to the Trunk Murder". Between the shops is the entrance to Little Jock's [Jack's] Close. An advertisement for McEwan & Son, Slaters and Chimney Sweepers is painted on the tenement wall.
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Unknown
Date
1927
Size
19.7 x 15.9 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
The Canongate is the section of Edinburgh's Royal Mile running from the junction with Jeffrey Street to a roundabout almost immediately outside Holyrood Palace.
Exhibitions with this item
The Old and New Towns of Edinburgh World Heritage
The Royal Mile: A Hidden History
Canongate and Corstorphine etc Improvement Scheme 1927
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