View of entrance doorway Hopetoun House, Port Hopetoun

Chrystal, Francis M., 1920, Photograph

Category

Library Item

Item no

4959

Title

View of entrance doorway Hopetoun House, Port Hopetoun

Description

An exterior view of Hopetoun House at Port Hopetoun, Edinburgh. A large doorway is set into a tower that protrudes from the front of the building. A large lamp is supported by metal brackets and hangs over the entrance. The window has broken panes.

Artist / maker

Chrystal, Francis M.

Date

1920

Size

15.3 x 11 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Full title reads ' View of entrance doorway, Hopetoun House, Port Hopetoun, showing lamp supported on wrought iron standards'

Port Hopetoun was the Edinburgh terminus of the Union Canal. It was closed, along with Port Hamilton in 1922 as canal trade declined. The site was later developed as Lothian House.

The Union Canal was opened in 1822. It ran from Tollcross in Edinburgh to meet the Forth and Clyde Canal at Falkirk, thus linking the capital to Glasgow. After extensive renovation in the 1990's the Canal is now a popular area for recreation, with non-commercial craft using the waterway and many cyclists, walkers and runners using the towpath.

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