Page 63 - John Smith's Houses and Streets in Edinburgh

Category

Library Item

Item no

18411

Title

Page 63 from John Smith's Houses and Streets in Edinburgh

Description

Excerpt from page - Leith Fort 1780- " The whole day the Lord Provost, Magistrates and Council , with the Deacons of Crafts being in Council assembled Baillie Thomson from the Lord Provosts Committee a plan and estimate of a Battery proposed as part of a redoubt for one hundred men and eight twenty - four pounders, with a guard house for a sergeant and twelve men, a store house , powder magazine, shade for some pieces of artillery ready to be drawn out for defence of the coast in case of need. The expense of which with purchasing the ground necessarily may amount to a sum betwixt eight and nine hundred pounds sterling..." Caladonian Mercury July 28 1780.

Artist / maker

Smith, John

Date

1927

Size

32 x 20 cm

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

This is a page from the book 'Origin, nomenclature and location of various houses and streets in Edinburgh' by John Smith.

Leith Fort was built in 1779-80 to defend the port. It was designed by James Craig, who also designed Edinburgh's New Town. The fort served to contain French prisoners during the Napoleonic Wars, and continued to be used for military purposes until after the Second World War. The fort was largely demolished in the 1950's.

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