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Exterior view of St. Saviour's, Canongate
Unknown, 1909, Photograph
Exterior view of St. Saviour's, Canongate
Exterior view of St. Saviour's, Canongate
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Item no
17814
Title
Exterior view of St Saviour's Child Garden, Canongate
Description
A two storey brick and stone building with a plaque on it that reads, "St Saviour's Mission, Brown's Close". A flight of stairs leads up to a first floor entrance and two children and a woman sit on the steps in the doorway. A boy sits on railings at the base of the stairs. In the distance there is a monument on the hillside.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1909
Size
11.2 x 15.5 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
This is a photograph from 'The Life History of a Slum Child' focusing on the community living in the Canongate. Accompanying text reads, "Now for the remedy! This building is not attractive externally, but in it was commenced what, please God, will be the saving of some hundreds of those little ones. In it was commenced the Free Kindergarten, now in Chessel's Court."
St Saviours began in 1906 in Brown's Close and moved to Chessels Court in 1908. Diary of a Free Kindergarten by Lileen Hardy was published in 1912 and records daily life in the Kindergarten and can be read online via the
Library of Congress
. The images taken for the Diary of a Free Kindergarten were taken by
Francis Caird Inglis
and many are the same or very similar to those within this exhibition and taken from 'The Life History of a Slum Child'.
Exhibitions with this item
The Old and New Towns of Edinburgh World Heritage
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Townscape
Life History of a Slum Child
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