West Bow (Foot of Victoria Street)

Category

Library Item

Item no

16411

Title

West Bow (Foot of Victoria Street)

Artist / maker

Murphy, Bernard

Date

2000

Size

10.1 x 14.9 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Edinburgh's West Bow was a 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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Business > Service industry > Shops

Homes > Residential buildings > Tenements

Landscape > Water > Wells

Places > Edinburgh areas > Old Town

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Transport > Infrastructure > Cobbled streets

Transport > Land > Cars

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