Ironside Place, Abbeyhill

Category

Library Item

Item no

18203

Title

Ironside Place, Abbeyhill

Artist / maker

Smith, John

Date

1927

Size

7.0 11.5 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'.

Abbeyhill is one of the oldest parts of the city, taking its name from the ruined Holyrood Abbey, a major historic religious site. The main east-west thoroughfare through the area is London Road, laid in the 1820s as part of the Calton development of the New Town.

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