117 - 123, Dumbiedykes Road, After Reconstruction

Category

Library Item

Item no

6328

Title

117 - 123, Dumbiedykes Road, after reconstruction

Description

The front of a newly refurbished tenement building in Dumbiedykes Road, Edinburgh. A wall separates the building from a cobblestone road below. The outline of Salisbury Crags is visible in the background.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1927

Size

25.5 x 20 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

For image before reconstruction use item number 6327

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

See accession number: C0011569530p15 for building before 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 > Residential buildings > Tenements

Places > Edinburgh areas > Southside

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Transport > Infrastructure > Roads

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