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The Grange Toll and Causewayside looking north
Tunny, James Good, 1854, Photograph
The Grange Toll and Causewayside looking north
The Grange Toll and Causewayside looking north
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2371
Title
The Grange Toll and Causewayside looking north
Description
Horse-drawn carts are on the road by the Grange Toll on Causewayside in Edinburgh. Children sit in front of a wooden fence. Houses which line the road have pantiled roofs.
Artist / maker
Tunny, James Good
Date
1854
Size
19.9 x 25.2 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
This image has been chosen for the Edinburgh - Past and Present Exhibition by Sheena McDonald, Journalist and Broadcaster - "I'm fascinated by this early photograph of a street which was familiar to me throughout my childhood. It's an old toll-gate, situated at the foot of what is now Ratcliffe Terrace - and recording a time 40 years before my dad's church, designed by Hippolyte Blanc at the end of the nineteenth century, and which throughout the 1960s I patronised variously as a Brownie, a Girl Guide, a Junior Bible Class member and so on, was built. All the houses in the photograph have, I think, been replaced - but the street is still recognisable. My personal 'toll-gate' on this street was the chippie, where I'd buy a poke of chips for 6d after Brownies every Friday night - and it's still there!" Sheena McDonald.
Annotation on page reads; "The Grange Toll and Causewayside looking north. The houses on the right of the view are still (1916) standing at the corner of West Mayfield"
For view south see Item Number 2370
J. G. Tunny, Member of the Photographic Society of Scotland. This work exhibited in the first annual exhibition, 1856. Edinburgh.
Causewayside, or Causeyside, formed part of an ancient approach to Edinburgh from the south. It now refers to a section of road from West Preston Street, close to the Meadows, to Duncan Street.
The Grange is an area in the south of Edinburgh. It lies to the south of Grange Road and to the west of Ratcliffe Terrace. The area served, from the mid 12th century, as agricultural land associated with St Giles Kirk. It was bought in 1631 by William Dick. The area was substantially developed in the mid to late 19th century. Many of the streets built at this time carry names associated with the Dick Lauder family.
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Newington and the Grange
Edinburgh Past and Present
James Good Tunny - photographs of Edinburgh
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