117 - 123 Dumbiedykes Road, Before Reconstruction

Category

Library Item

Item no

6327

Title

117 - 123 Dumbiedykes Road, before reconstruction

Description

A group of children stand behind a wall in front of a tenement building with broken windows and in a general state of disrepair in Dumbiedykes Road, Edinburgh. Men take a handcart along a cobblestone road beyond the wall.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1922

Size

25.5 x 20 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

For image after reconstruction use item number 6328

This photograph is taken from the bound volume 'City of Edinburgh: photographs of housing reconstructions carried out by the corporation'

See accession number: C0011569530p16 for building after reconstruction.

Dumbiedykes is an area of central Edinburgh bordered by Holyrood Park to the east and Holyrood Road to the north. Today the name most often refers specifically to the housing estate in the area which comprises two tower blocks, Lockview Court and Holyrood Court, and other housing . The area and road take their name from the Academy for the Deaf and Dumb established by Thomas Braidwood around 1764 and closed in 1783.

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Homes > Derelict buildings and excavation sites > Disrepair (homes)

Homes > Residential buildings > Tenements

Places > Edinburgh areas > Southside

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Transport > Infrastructure > Roads

Transport > Land > Carts and wagons

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