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Top of Brown Street

Malcolm, Adam H, 1959, Photograph
Top of Brown Street
Top of Brown Street
Top of Brown Street
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Item no
17180
Title
Top of Brown Street
Description
A woman and her two young sons make their way up Brown Street from their home in Dumbiedykes Road.

Cis Low's family were all from the foot of the Dumbiedykes and she'd moved with her husband Hugh Mackay from a room and kitchen in St Leonard's Hill to 111 Dumbiedykes Road on the birth of their second child Ian Mackay. Ian (in reins) and Gordon are pictured, like their mother, in their best clothes. The boys are more interested in what's happening behind them than walking up the street, as they pass an older woman struggling up the steep Brown Street. Another lady has just made it to the top of the hill and Charteris Pleasance Church on the corner.

The broad cobbled road has buildings on either side and a car is parked at the edge of the pavement. A bus is making its way along the Pleasance. A street lamp is fixed to the side of one of the buildings.
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Date
1959
Size
12.1 x 8.5cm
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Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
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