George Square Looking Towards Crichton Street

Category

Library Item

Item no

10784

Title

View from the corner of George Square, Edinburgh, looking towards Crichton Street

Description

A crane can be seen above the construction site for Edinburgh University's new School of Infomatics building. Across from the new building is another which has bicycles against its railings and a cobblestone road next to it.

Artist / maker

MacLean, Kevin

Date

2007

Size

19 x 15.4 cm

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

George Square in Edinburgh is situated to the south of the meadows and the west of Buccleuch Street. It was designed by James Brown and begun in 1766, immediately before James Craig's far more ambitious New Town development. Only the west side and a fragment of the north-east corner of the original square of terraced houses remains. On the north side the university's psychology department is housed in a late 19th century building, formerly George Watson's Ladies College. The rest has been replaced by large purpose built university buildings, constructed in the 1960's.
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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Education > Educational facilities > Universities and colleges

Manufacturing Industry > Manufacturing facilities > Construction sites

Places > Edinburgh areas > Old Town

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Transport > Infrastructure > Roads

Transport > Land > Bicycles

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George Square looking towards Crichton Street