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127, West Port, after reconstruction
Unknown, 1927, Photograph
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127, West Port, after reconstruction
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127, West Port, after reconstruction
Description
A refurbished tenement building and other tenement housing in the West Port of Edinburgh are above shops on street level. The shops include a shoe repairer and a furniture store, where a man and woman browse by the doorway. The shops have window displays and some have goods on the pavement and cobblestone road outside.
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Unknown
Date
1927
Size
25.5 x 20 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
This photograph is taken from the bound volume 'City of Edinburgh: photographs of housing reconstructions carried out by the corporation'
The West Port is a street that continues west from Edinburgh's Grassmarket towards Lothian Road. It was the site of the western entrance to Edinburgh through the city wall.
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