Gordon House, Castle Hill from Johnston Terrace

Category

Library Item

Item no

2259

Title

Gordon house, Castle Hill from Johnston Terrace

Description

The Gordon House from Johnston Terrace, Edinburgh. Below this building are lower structures with pantiled roofs. On the walls of these buildings are bill posters. On the pavement two boys and a man stand near a street lamp. Around a tenement is a wooden fence.

Artist / maker

Inglis, Alexander Adam

Date

1887

Size

15.9 x 21 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Johnston Terrace forms part of Thomas Hamilton's plan for a new western approach to Edinburgh. The plan was authorised by parliament in 1827 and Johnston Terrace, then referred to as the New West Approach, was opened in the mid 1830's. Its name was changed in 1850 in honour of Sir William Johnston, Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1848-51.

Castlehill is the section of the Royal Mile running from Castle Esplanade to the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh.

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Architecture > Architectural features > Roofs

Business > Advertising > Advertisements

Homes > Residential buildings > Tenements

Places > Edinburgh areas > Old Town

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

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