Rear of Baxter Place from Calton Hill, Edinburgh

Category

Library Item

Item no

18201

Title

Rear of Baxter Place from Calton Hill, Edinburgh

Description

A row of stone houses with a tall street of tenement buildings on higher ground behind. The building on the right beyond the lower houses has a large entrance facade with supporting columns.

Artist / maker

Smith, John

Date

1927

Size

6.9 x 11.4 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'.

The Greenside area of Edinburgh, immediately to the west of Calton Hill, changed substantially during the second half of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st century. Tall, 19th century tenement buildings were demolished in the 1960's as part of Edinburgh's slum clearances. The Omni Centre, comprising a 12 screen cinema, hotel, bars, restaurants and a fitness centre was opened on the site in 2002.

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Architecture > Architectural features > Chimneys

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Homes > Residential buildings > Houses

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Places > Edinburgh areas > Calton Hill

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

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