Mary of Guise's House, Coalhill and Old Bridgend

Category

Library Item

Item no

35600

Title

Page from Leith Miscellany, volume III, Mary of Guise's House, Coalhill and Old Bridgend

Artist / maker

McKean, John

Date

1880

Type

Photograph

This building is believed to have been erected by Mary of Guise, the mother of Mary Queen of Scots, as a meeting place for her privy council. It was demolished in 1887. Old Bridgend is on the right.

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