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St Andrew's House and the Old Calton Burial Ground
MacLean, Kevin, 2007, Digital image
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St Andrew's House and the Old Calton Burial Ground
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Title
View of St Andrew's House, the Old Calton Burial Ground, and Waverley Station
Description
St Andrew's House dominates the foreground of this image of central Edinburgh. Waterloo Place runs in front of the building and carries on into Princes Street. The Old Calton Burial Ground, North Bridge and Waverley Station can be seen to the left of the road. Edinburgh Castle and the Castle Rock towers above the Old Town.
Artist / maker
MacLean, Kevin
Date
2007
Size
25.4 x 19 cm
Type
Digital image
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
St Andrew's House stands on the site previously occupied by Calton Gaol, immediately to the south of Calton Hill. The building is currently used by the Scottish Executive.
The main part of the Old Calton Burial Ground stands immediately to south of Waterloo Place. The cemetery was bisected by the construction of that road in 1820, and the bodies disturbed by the work were moved to a new site a little way to the east. The Old Calton Burial Ground has several notable structures within it. The Emancipation Monument stands in memory of those Scottish-American soldiers fought for the Union during the American Civil War. There is also a monument to the celebrated philosopher David Hume. A large obelisk stands as a monument to those radical reformers, including Thomas Muir, who were tried, convicted and deported for sedition in 1793. In the wake of the French and American Revolutions Muir and his associates had been active in a widespread movement for political and social reform in Britain. The movement attracted alarm and extreme sanction from both the political establishment and conservative elements in society.
Edinburgh Waverley is the second largest mainline railway station in the UK. There were originally three stations on the site, serving three separate railway companies including the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee Railway whose trains ran through a tunnel underneath Princes Street and New Town to another Station at Scotland Street. In 1866 North British Railway absorbed the other two companies and proceeded to amalgamate the three existing stations. Construction of this single station, much of which remains, was completed in 1874.
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The Old and New Towns of Edinburgh World Heritage
Historic City and Capital of Scotland
Contemporary Edinburgh in Photographs
Princes Street, Past and Present
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