Holyrood Tavern

Category

Library Item

Item no

11944

Title

Holyrood Tavern, Holyrood Road during the Edinburgh Festival

Description

A woman carrying bags walks past a pub covered with Fringe Festival advertising posters. The pub, the Holyrood Tavern has two lamps at either side of name sign.

Artist / maker

Ansell, Andrew J L

Date

2007

Size

19.7 x 26.4 cm

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Holyrood Road is the easterly continuation of the Cowgate. It runs from the junction of St Mary's Street and the Pleasance down to the Scottish Parliament.

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has its roots in the attendance of eight uninvited theatre groups at the inaugural Edinburgh International Festival in 1947. This unofficial adjunct to the festival grew in both size and organisation throughout the 1950's with more and more performers coming to take advantage of the audiences drawn to the capital by the official events. By the end of the decade a well organised Festival Fringe Society had been established with a constitution, brochure, and central ticket sales. Today 'The Fringe' hosts several hundred productions each year, and ticket sales have exceeded 1.6 million.

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Business > Advertising > Advertisements

Events > Festivals > Fringe Festival

Places > Edinburgh areas > Canongate

Places > Edinburgh areas > Old Town

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Sport and leisure > Eating and drinking facilities > Public houses