Christmas Festival, Princes Street Gardens

Category

Library Item

Item no

16449

Title

Christmas Festival, Princes Street Gardens

Description

A sunset lights up the skyline amid the Edinburgh Christmas Festival. Edinburgh Castle is ablaze with lights from its site on the Castle Rock. Below it stands the National Gallery of Scotland on the Mound and to the right Princes Street Gardens has fairground rides covered in festive lights. The Scott Monument stands dark against a shining Ferris wheel. In the foreground the glass roofs of Waverley Station can be seen.

Artist / maker

Murphy, Bernard

Date

2006

Size

10.1 x 14.9 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Princes Street Gardens were established on the site of the Nor' Loch which was drained during the C18. The park was originally for the exclusive use of the residents of Princes Street, but was opened to the public in 1876. The gardens contain various statues of notable figures, as well as the Ross fountain and bandstand and the famous floral clock.

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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Architecture > Monuments > Memorial monuments

Homes > Residential buildings > Castles and palaces

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Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Sport and leisure > Culture > Galleries

Sport and leisure > Sports and recreation facilities > Ferris Wheels

Transport > Infrastructure > Railway stations