Pleasance Trust Gym

Category

Library Item

Item no

17152

Title

Pleasance Trust Gym

Description

An image of the buildings that make up the Pleasance Trust Gym, Edinburgh. The stone built buildings have pan tile roofs with crow stepped gables on the end. The windows are rectangular with multi-paned sashes. An arched opening leads through to the rear of the building and to its left a half tower fits in between the corner of two sections of the building. In the courtyard outside stands a flagpole beside a van and a Morris Minor car.

Artist / maker

Malcolm, Adam H

Date

1959

Size

8.3 x 11.7cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

This image is within the Edinburgh World Heritage area.

This image is taken from the Dumbiedykes Survey that was carried out in 1959 for the Libraries and Museums Committee of Edinburgh Town Council. The survey was to record the buildings of the area before their demolition and reconstruction after 1964.

Dumbiedykes is an area of central Edinburgh bordered by Holyrood Park to the east and Holyrood Road to the north. The area and road take their name from the Academy for the Deaf and Dumb established by Thomas Braidwood around 1764 and closed in 1783 (known as Dummie/Dumbie House). Today the name most often refers specifically to the housing estate in the area which comprises two tower blocks, Lockview Court and Holyrood Court, and other housing.

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