Register House and Waterloo Place

Category

Library Item

Item no

2377

Title

Register House and Waterloo Place

Description

This Edinburgh view shows Register House, Waterloo Place, Leith Street, the Duke of Wellington statue. The National Monument and the monuments to Nelson and Dugald Stewart are also visible. Canopies are pulled over shop windows. A horse-drawn bus travels along the cobblestone road.

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: "Register House and Waterloo Place. The screen wall in front of the Register House is shown in its original position. It has since been taken further back and the iron railing removed."

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

Regent Bridge was designed by the architect Archibald Elliot, and built between 1816 and 1819 to improve access to central Edinburgh from the London Road approach. Robert Stevenson was the engineer for the project. The Bridge spans a ravine between Calton Hill and Princes Street. The road which it carries was named Waterloo Place to commemorate the great battle of 1815.

The word cobble has been used here to help with searching, an alternative term is sett. Sett stones describe both the type of stone and the method in which they are used.

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Related subjects

Architecture > Monuments > Memorial monuments

Architecture > Monuments > Statues

Places > Edinburgh areas > Calton

Places > Edinburgh areas > Calton Hill

Places > Edinburgh areas > Princes Street

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Transport > Infrastructure > Roads

Transport > Land > Horse-drawn buses

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