Front of East Portion of Waverley Hotel

Category

Library Item

Item no

2175

Title

Front of east portion of Waverley Hotel

Description

The front of the Waverley Hotel in Edinburgh has many windows, on the walls are stone carvings some of which are of human heads. On ground level there are shops, one with a window display, others with advertisements. Horse-drawn carts and a carriage can be seen through a metal railing fence. Under the main hotel sign is another displaying a Temperance Hotel.

Artist / maker

Morham, George

Date

1877

Size

20.9 x 14.9 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Complete annotation below item reads 'Front of east portion of Waverley Hotel planned by R. Morham architect about 1873 and pulled down Oct 1885'

Robert Cranston's Temperance Hotel was established at 43 Princes Street around 1848. It became the Waverley Hotel a few years later, changing its name again to the Old Waverley Hotel in 1868 after Cranston established another hotel nearby.

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Places > Edinburgh areas > Princes Street

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Sport and leisure > Public accommodation facilities > Hotels

Transport > Land > Horse and carts

(55°57′10″N, 3°11′35″W)

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