View in the Watergate, Edinburgh

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

11542

Title

View in the Watergate, Edinburgh

Description

A double image of houses with steep roofs and crow-step gables in the Watergate, Edinburgh. The houses have small windows and doorways and a streetlamp is attached to the corner. two pwople stand outside a shop or business on the left. Taller tenements are visible behind.

Artist / maker

Begbie, Thomas

Date

1887

Size

8.3 x 17.1 cm

Type

Glass negative

Location

City Art Centre

Copyright

The Cavaye Collection of Thomas Begbie Prints ; The City of Edinburgh Council Museums & Galleries

The Watergate was an arched gateway into the Canongate. Standing immediately to the north of Abbey Strand in front of Holyroodhouse it was the principle entrance to the Canongate from the east. It was not a fortified gate, but provided a degree of security and was used for the collection of customs. Its name stems either from the Tummel Burn which crossed the road at this point, or from a large pond nearby used for watering horses. The gate was blown down in the 1820's, and the replacement did not survive beyond the mid 1900's.

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Homes > Residential buildings > Houses

Homes > Residential buildings > Tenements

Places > Edinburgh areas > Canongate

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Transport > Infrastructure > Street lights

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