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Miss Young's newsagent shop, Fountainbridge
Unknown, 1915, Photograph
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Miss Young's newsagent shop, Fountainbridge
Miss Young's newsagent shop, Fountainbridge
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Item no
9428
Title
Miss Young's newsagent shop, Fountainbridge, showing William and John Morrison
Description
The front of Miss Young's newsagent shop at Fountainbridge, Edinburgh is covered with advertisements for the Scottish Weekly Record with the headline "The girl that loved a miner". Only the glass in the window is left uncovered. In front of the shop two boys stand holding piles of papers. One is wearing a sailor suit and the other a jacket and shirt.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1915
Size
23.2 x 29.2 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Fountainbridge is an area in the south-west of central Edinburgh, to the west of Tollcross. The area is centred around the western section of a road also called Fountainbridge. The Union Canal now begins in this area having originally extended a little further east.
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The Union Canal and Fountainbridge
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