Toll in the Grange Loan

Category

Library Item

Item no

2373

Title

Toll in the Grange Loan at the south west corner of the garden attached to the Grange House

Description

A man leans against a wooden fence at the Toll in Grange Loan, Edinburgh. There is a lamp post beside a house with a pantile roof. Another house opposite is whitewashed.

Artist / maker

Tunny, James Good

Date

1854

Size

19.9 x 25.2 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Annotation on page reads: "Toll in the Grange Loan at the south west corner of the garden attached to the Grange House. the wall of the garden at the entance left of the view still remains. The ground beyond this on the left occupied by 2 small cottages, is now the garden of the villa at the south western corner of Lauder Road."

J. G. Tunny, Member of the Photographic Society of Scotland. This work exhibited in the first annual exhibition, 1856. Edinburgh.

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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Business > Service industry > Tolls

Places > Edinburgh areas > Grange

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