Pleasance Trust - Friends Burial Ground

Category

Library Item

Item no

17301

Title

Pleasance Trust - Friends Burial Ground

Description

A close-up image of a plain low headstone in the Friends Burial Ground at the Pleasance Trust, Edinburgh. The gravestone is engraved with "Edwin Thompson Resident Physician Royal Infirmary died 21st of March 1870 aged 22". Grass lies at the base of the stone and its back rests against a stone wall.

Artist / maker

Malcolm, Adam H

Date

1959

Size

82 x 114cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

This image is within the Edinburgh World Heritage area.

This image is taken from the Dumbiedykes Survey that was carried out in 1959 for the Libraries and Museums Committee of Edinburgh Town Council. The survey was to record the buildings of the area before their demolition and reconstruction after 1964.

Dumbiedykes is an area of central Edinburgh bordered by Holyrood Park to the east and Holyrood Road to the north. The area and road take their name from the Academy for the Deaf and Dumb established by Thomas Braidwood around 1764 and closed in 1783 (known as Dummie/Dumbie House). Today the name most often refers specifically to the housing estate in the area which comprises two tower blocks, Lockview Court and Holyrood Court, and other housing.

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Architecture > Monuments > Gravestones

People > Health and safety > Physicians

Places > Edinburgh areas > Southside

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Religion > Religious facilities > Graveyards

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