Potterrow

Category

Library Item

Item no

671

Title

Potterrow

Description

A person walks up steps with a handrail to a doorway in multi-level housing. A lean-to shed is on the end of the building, another small structure is next to it. Smoke rises from the lums. On the wall on the corner of the building there is a lamp.

Artist / maker

Skene, James

Date

1817

Size

15 x 21 cm.

Type

Pencil work

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Potterrow derives its name from its industrial heritage, there having been a large number of pottery workshops in this area. It originally formed part of an important southern approach to the city of Edinburgh which continued along Horses Wynd and Borthwick Close to the High Street. The nearby gateway through the City Walls, originally called Kirk o'Field Port, came to be known as Potterrow Port. The street was drastically remodelled in the 1960's, and the pedestrian underpass created took on the name Potterrow Port. The nearby modern Student Union is called Potterrow.

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