View of Waterloo Place, Edinburgh

Category

Library Item

Item no

14603

Title

View of Waterloo Place, Edinburgh, with Rock House and Calton Hill behind

Description

Cars are parked in front of buildings on Waterloo Place, Edinburgh. Above the road on the lower part of Calton Hill is Rock House. The Dugald Stewart Monument on the summit of Calton Hill can be seen in the distance.

Artist / maker

MacLean, Kevin

Date

2008

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Rock House is situated immediately below Calton Hill, on a short street also called Calton Hill which runs north-west from Waterloo Place. It has been the home and commercial premises of several of the most important Scottish photographers. It was perhaps most famously inhabited by D. O. Hill and Robert Adamson who used the garden as a location for many of their portraits. The house was subsequently occupied by John and Thomas Annan, Archibald Burns, and Alexander Adam and Francis Caird Inglis. The house is currently a private residence.

Waterloo Place is situated at the east end of Princes Street. It is carried by Regent Bridge over the Low Calton ravine between Princes Street and Calton Hill.

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Architecture > Monuments > Memorial monuments

Places > Edinburgh areas > Calton Hill

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