St James' Square Development, Edinburgh

Category

Library Item

Item no

4547

Title

St James' Square development, Edinburgh

Description

The building in the centre of the picture has four storeys with a white painted first floor contrasting with the rest of the building. There is wooden hoarding in front of the block of tenement buildings at pavement level and several parked cars on either side of the road. A bus travels down the road on the right and a couple of people walk across the street at the wide junction. In the top right corner of the picture is a circular sign for Pollard Bearings.

Artist / maker

Jackman, S. G.

Date

1969

Size

14.4 x 21.5 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Annotation on reverse of item reads 'St James' Square development. Picardy Place (south side) facade of triangular block being demolished 1969. Leith Street at extreme left. York Place at extreme right. Note the nearly defaced word "Waterloo" on the round end of the buildings. In the building labelled "Apartments" Arthur Conan Doyle was born'

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Manufacturing Industry > Manufacturing equipment > Hoarding

Places > Edinburgh areas > Calton

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Sport and leisure > Activities > Walking

Transport > Infrastructure > Roads

Transport > Land > Cars

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