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Robert Louis Stevenson's former residence
MacLean, Kevin, 2007, Digital image
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Robert Louis Stevenson's former residence
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No. 17 Heriot Row, Edinburgh, Robert Louis Stevenson's former residence
Description
Above doorways with letterboxes and bell pulls in Heriot Row, Edinburgh, are semi-circular windows. Stairways with metal railings and street lights lead up to the doors from the pavement. On the upper levels of some houses are metalwork balconies. Some houses have window boxes while others have potted shrubs outside their doors.
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MacLean, Kevin
Date
2007
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Digital image
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Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
The Stevenson family moved to this house at 17, Heriot Row in 1857. A plaque on the railings outside carries four lines from Stevenson's poem The Lamplighter.
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The Old and New Towns of Edinburgh World Heritage
Intellectual Tradition, Education and Law
Robert Louis Stevenson
Contemporary Edinburgh in Photographs
Whose Town? Robert Louis Stevenson
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