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West Bow (Foot of Victoria Street)
Murphy, Bernard, 2000, Photograph
West Bow (Foot of Victoria Street)
West Bow (Foot of Victoria Street)
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16408
Title
West Bow (Foot of Victoria Street)
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The view up the curving, cobbled Victoria Street, Edinburgh (the West Bow). A colourful array of shops and businesses line the street. At the foot of the street stands the West Bow Well which has a carved coat of arms on the front above a stone water bowl.
Artist / maker
Murphy, Bernard
Date
2000
Size
10.1 x 14.9 cm
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Photograph
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Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Edinburgh's West Bow was zig-zagging street which led from the Grassmarket to the Lawnmarket. Its upper half was destroyed by the construction of Victoria Street and Terrace. Originally the street was filled with a quirky assortment of 17th-century tenements, with crow-stepped gables, flight-holes for doves, towers and merchants shops.
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The Old and New Towns of Edinburgh World Heritage
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Townscape
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