View Looking Down Falcon Road West

Category

Library Item

Item no

32091

Title

View looking down Falcon Road West towards Morningside Library

Artist / maker

MacLean, Kevin

Date

2014

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Morningside was once a village on a main road south from Edinburgh. In the 1850s it was no more than a row of thatched houses and a blacksmith's forge and beyond the Jordan Burn was open countryside. Nowadays it is predominantly residential with a collection of small traditional shops, restaurants, supermarkets, a library and hospitals.

"Falcon Hall once stood in this vicinity. Built in 1780 and originally called Morningside Lodge, it was bought and refurbished in 1814 by Alexander Falconer, who renamed it Falcon Hall. When demolished in 1909, the falcons on the entrance gate were removed to a house in Corstorphine which later became Edinburgh Zoo. The front facade was rebuilt in Duncan Street and became the front facade of Barholomew's and Sons, mapmakers".
[Information taken from Morningside Heritage Association leaflet, "Morningside Heritage Trail"].

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