Bristo Street

Category

Library Item

Item no

5745

Title

Bristo Street - looking south, showing buildings demolished in 1897

Description

Tenement buildings on Bristo Street stand opposite the partially visible McEwan Hall. A horse and cart are on the cobblestone road heading towards the Edinburgh University Union.
Standing between two lamp-posts is a man.
This is a photograph by a member of the Edinburgh Photographic Society.

Artist / maker

Baird, A. H.

Date

1897

Size

19.7 x 13.4 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Bristo Street ran from Chapel Street to the present day Bristo Place, previously its southernmost section. The section of the street from Bristo Place to Chapel Street was destroyed in the development of Bristo Square in 1982.

McEwan Hall is situated immediately to the west of Bristo Square. It was designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson and built between 1888-97 with funds donated by the brewer William McEwan. The hall's principal function is as a venue for graduations, but it also hosts concerts, public events and examinations.

The word cobble has been used here to help with searching, an alternative term is sett. Sett stones describe both the type of stone and the method in which they are used.

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