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Old Fishmarket Close, High Street, Edinburgh
MacLean, Kevin, 2007, Digital image
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Old Fishmarket Close, High Street, Edinburgh
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Old Fishmarket Close, High Street, Edinburgh
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MacLean, Kevin
Date
2007
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26.4 x 19.7 cm
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Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Fishmarket Close, now Old Fishmarket Close, is a short street connecting the High Street with the Cowgate.
Home also to the City Hangman or 'Doomster', the last being a John High who died in 1817.
George Heriot, benefactor and founder of the Hospital and School which bear his name, lived here in 1586.
Daniel Defoe is also rumoured to have worked here as a secret agent to the English Government at the Treaty of Union in 1707.
The head of the close was for many years a station for a primitive fire engine dragged out by rope in the event of emergency.
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