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Burnet's Close, High Street, before reconstruction
Unknown, 1921, Photograph
Burnet's Close, High Street, before reconstruction
Burnet's Close, High Street, before reconstruction
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Title
Burnet's Close, High Street, Edinburgh, before reconstruction
Description
Row of apartment and tenement buildings lining the street. Shop fronts occupy the lower levels of the buildings. A number of windows in the upper levels have been filled in, or the glass broken.
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Unknown
Date
1921
Size
25.5 x 20.5 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
This photograph is taken from the bound volume 'City of Edinburgh: photographs of housing reconstructions carried out by the corporation'.
The High Street is the section of Edinburgh's Royal Mile that runs from George IV Bridge down to its junction with Jeffrey Street and St. Mary's Street.
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