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Broomfield
Unknown, 1887, Photograph
Broomfield
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Item no
6294
Title
Broomfield
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1887
Size
10.5 x 15.5 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Broomfield is located near the foreshore at Silverknowes, a little to the west of Muirhouse and north-east of Silverknowes.
Broomfield seems to have been bought by William Wilson in 1849. He was a lawyer, and by 1871 was a Writer to the Signet. In 1881 his Trustees sold it to William Henry Haig, and in 1896 it passed to Hugh Anthony de Courcy Haig. William Henry Haig was the eldest brother of World War I commander Field Marshall Douglas Haig, who became Earl Haig in 1919. Their father was John Haig, a whisky distiller.
It was sold on in 1936 to Edinburgh Corporation along with the ground around it. It then passed to the Scottish Gas Board and in 1964 to their successors the British Gas Corporation before becoming the Commodore Hotel in the 1960s.
It is currently called the Almond House Lodge.
This photograph is from a volume entitled 'Photographs of houses in the vicinity of Lauriston Castle' which was compiled in 1909. The book has the armorial bookplate of Macknight Crawfurd of Cartsburn, Lauriston Castle, on the inside cover.
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