High Riggs - looking west to Tollcross

Category

Library Item

Item no

5726

Title

High Riggs - looking west to Tollcross

Description

People make their way along High Riggs in Edinburgh. Tenement buildings enclose the area and a cobblestone road cuts through the street. Below the tenements are pubs and shops, one shop has goods outside. Pedestrians walk along the pavements, one woman pushing a pram.
This is a photograph by a member of the Edinburgh Photographic Society.

Artist / maker

Hamilton, J. R.

Date

1914

Size

9.2 x 11.7 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

High Riggs is the name of a street in Edinburgh
which ran from the east end of West Port to Tollcross. The area has been extensively redeveloped and the south section of the street is now pedestrianised.

Tollcross is an area in the south-west of central Edinburgh. It centres around the crossroads of Brougham Street, Home Street, Earl Grey Street and Lauriston Place and West Tollcross.

The word cobble has been used here to help with searching, an alternative term is sett. Sett stones describe both the type of stone and the method in which they are used.

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Business > Service industry > Shops

Homes > Residential buildings > Tenements

Places > Edinburgh areas > Tollcross

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Transport > Infrastructure > Roads

Transport > Infrastructure > Streets

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