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The West Bow, High Street
Burns, Archibald, 1868, Photograph
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The West Bow, High Street
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Title
The West Bow, High Street
Description
An image of the Lawnmarket and the top of West Bow in Edinburgh. Tall tenement buildings line either side of the cobbled streets. Shops on the ground level include a china and stoneware shop and a woollen ragstore called Barron's. Washing hangs out of some of the tenement windows. To the right is a church building and part of St Giles Cathedral is visible down the street.
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Burns, Archibald
Date
1868
Size
10.7 x 16.7 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Lawnmarket is the section of Edinburgh's Royal Mile running from its junction with Johnston Terrace to where it meets George IV Bridge. Regular markets were held in this area until the late 18th century.
Edinburgh's West Bow was zig-zagging street which led up from the Grassmarket to the top of the Lawnmarket. The street was interrupted by the construction of Victoria Street and Terrace between 1829-34. Its lower section joining the Grassmarket remains, and the line of the old street can be followed via a staircase to the Upper Bow. Traffic now follows Victoria Street from the West Bow up to George IV Bridge.
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