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Paisley Close in the High Street, Edinburgh
MacLean, Kevin, 2012, Digital image
Paisley Close in the High Street, Edinburgh
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Paisley Close in the High Street, Edinburgh
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MacLean, Kevin
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2012
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Paisley Close is located next to Bailie Fyfe's Close on Edinburgh's Royal Mile. In 1861, a 250 year old tenement building in Bailie Fyfe's Close collapsed killing 35 people. One boy, Joseph McIver, was heard calling out to the rescuers and was pulled from the rubble. Above the entrance to Paisley Close is a a stone carved sculpture of the boy and an inscription which reads, "Heave awa chaps, ah'm no deid yet'.
The 'closes' of Edinburgh's Old Town are narrow passages branching off at right angles from the main streets. They provide access to the tenement buildings, and often to small shared courtyards. Many closes also act as shortcuts between Old Town's main streets
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