Horse Wynd - 73 Giles Street to 39 St Andrew Street

Category

Library Item

Item no

36208

Title

Page from Leith Miscellany, volume II, Horse Wynd - 73 Giles Street to 39 St Andrew Street

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1870

Type

Photograph; Reproduction

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Horse Wynd was one of a number of small closes demolished to make way for Henderson Street as part of the Leith Improvement Scheme. An Act of Parliament was passed allowing this in 1880 but construction of Henderson Street began in 1886 and was not completed until the 1890s.

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