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Alleyway to St Saviour's House, Canongate
Unknown, 1909, Photograph
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Alleyway to St Saviour's House, Canongate
Alleyway to St Saviour's House, Canongate
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Item no
17808
Title
Alleyway to St Saviour's House, Canongate
Description
A narrow cobbled alleyway leads to "St Saviour's House and Child Garden" nursery. In front of the nursery entrance are women and schoolchildren. There are gas lamps attached to the tenement building and washing drying high above.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1909
Size
15.5 x 11.4 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
This is a photograph from 'The Life History of a Slum Child' focusing on the community living in the Canongate. St Saviours began in 1906 in Brown's Close and moved to Chessels Court in 1908. Diary of a Free Kindergarten by Lileen Hardy was published in 1912 and records daily life in the Kindergarten and can be read online via the
Library of Congress
. The images taken for the Diary of a Free Kindergarten were taken by
Francis Caird Inglis
and many are the same or very similar to those within this exhibition and taken from 'The Life History of a Slum Child'.
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The Old and New Towns of Edinburgh World Heritage
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Townscape
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Life History of a Slum Child
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