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Villas in Bruntsfield Place
Burns, Archibald, 1870, Photograph
Villas in Bruntsfield Place
Villas in Bruntsfield Place
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6893
Title
Villas in Bruntsfield Place
Description
Two women in Victorian dress walk along the pavement beside an area of open land and opposite a row of detached houses. The houses have walled front gardens with ornate railings and gates separating them from the road. The street is cobbled and empty of traffic.
Artist / maker
Burns, Archibald
Date
1870
Size
19 x 29.1 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
The accompanying text in the volume reads:
"56. Villas in Bruntsfield Place Between Leamington Terrace and Viewforth.
Demolished and tenements erected in 1889."
Bruntsfield is a residential district in the south of Edinburgh. Its name, somewhat corrupted over time, derives from the estates 14th century owners, the Broune family. The original estate actually lay immediately to the east of modern day Bruntsfield in the area now referred to as Marchmont. Bruntsfield House was incorporated into the grounds of James Gillespie's High School in the 1960's.
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