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Lauriston Place - west end, looking east
Oliver, James, 1914, Photograph
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Title
Lauriston Place - west end, looking east
Description
Lauriston Place in Edinburgh is busy with people and traffic, which includes a car and horse drawn carts. The cobblestone road has tramlines through it and tenement buildings on either side. Underneath advertising posters is a bookshop with books displayed in its window.
This is a photograph by a member of the Edinburgh Photographic Society.
Artist / maker
Oliver, James
Date
1914
Size
8.5 x 11 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Lauriston Place in Edinburgh runs west from the south end of Forrest Road to Tollcross. Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary was situated on Lauriston Place until 2003.
The word cobble has been used here to help with searching, an alternative term is sett. Sett stones describe both the type of stone and the method in which they are used.
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