Mortonhall

Category

Library Item

Item no

12931

Title

Mortonhall

Description

This exhibition contains 102 images of castles and mansions of the Lothians kept in two volumes in the Edinburgh and Scottish Collection held in Central Library.

All the images are by an unknown photographer and taken between 1875 and 1883.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1880

Size

13.9 x 19 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The accompanying descriptive text in the volume begins as follows:
'This elegant and commodious mansion, the residence of Colonel Henry Trotter, is situated in the parish of Liberton, a short distance from the southern suburbs of Edinburgh. It was built about the year 1769, but was much improved by Richard Trotter, Esq., the father of the present proprietor. It stands on the site of an older house, which in more ancient times was a fort or stronghold, surrounded with water, and having an entry into it by a drawbridge.'

The full text may be viewed from the volume which is held at the Edinburgh and Scottish Collection in Edinburgh Central Library.

Mortonhall has now been converted into flats.

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