Rear of Wright's House Looking North-west

Category

Library Item

Item no

18131

Title

Rear of Wright's House looking north-west

Artist / maker

Smith, John

Date

1927

Size

21.6 x 16.2 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

This is a photograph from the book 'Origin, nomenclature and location of various houses and streets in Edinburgh'.

This house once occupied the site of Gillespie's Hospital near Bruntsfield Links. It was an old baronial mansion belonging to the Napier family and started with a tower in the 12th century that was gradually added to. The origin of the name in unknown although some believe it relates to the wrights who lived there, who worked felling oaks on the Burghmuir.

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