George Square - east side - Capital Collections

Category

Library Item

Item no

6068

Title

George Square - east side, showing end of Windmill Street, and nos. 55 to 60

Description

This is a photograph by a member of the Edinburgh Photographic Society.

Artist / maker

McKenzie, J. C.

Date

1913

Size

11.8 x 9 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

George Square in Edinburgh is situated to the south of the meadows and the west of Buccleuch Street. It was designed by James Brown and begun in 1766, immediately before James Craig's far more ambitious New Town development. Only the west side and a fragment of the north-east corner of the original square of terraced houses remains. On the north side the university's psychology department is housed in a late 19th century building, formerly George Watson's Ladies College. The rest has been replaced by large purpose built university buildings, constructed in the 1960's.

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