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Burnet's Close, High Street, after reconstruction
Unknown, 1923, Photograph
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Burnet's Close, High Street, after reconstruction
Burnet's Close, High Street, after reconstruction
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Title
Burnet's Close, High Street, Edinburgh, after reconstruction
Description
Image of a row of apartment buildings with shops on the lower levels. A group of people stand outside the post office, while a car is parked near the Woollen Warehousemen. Large painted signs advertise the shops.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1923
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'.
Burnet's Close was originally called Johnston's Close in 1564. Burnet's Close was reconstructed after the Great Fire of 1824.
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