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View of remnants of boundary wall of former Gas Works, Old Tolbooth Wynd, Edinburgh, from N.

DP 190182

Description View of remnants of boundary wall of former Gas Works, Old Tolbooth Wynd, Edinburgh, from N.

Date 27/5/2014

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number DP 190182

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content This shows Old Tolbooth Wynd, and the rear elevation of Canongate Tolbooth, 163 Canongate, Edinburgh. Dating from 1591, the Tolbooth was restored by Robert Morham (1839-1912) in 1879 and 1884. Built in a so-called Franco-Scottish style, it consists of a conical-spired square-plan tower with corbelled bartizan turrets flanking the ogee-roofed, bracketed projecting clock, all above the round-arched pend leading to Old Tolbooth Wynd (left) which joins Canongate in the south to Calton Road (formerly North Back of Canongate) in the north. This view looking south in Old Tolbooth Wynd shows the remains of a stone and brick boundary wall for the former gasworks (right). A gasworks was established in the area bounded by New Street and Old Tolbooth Wynd between 1817 and 1821 -Kirkwood's map of 1817 shows the land as 'The Property of Alex. Ramsay Esq' with the Magdalene Asylum in this eastern portion. However by Kirkwood's map of 1821, there is a gasworks in the western half of the site. The works expanded hugely from 1821 to 1852 (Ordnance Survey 1:1056 map of 1852) and again by 1877 when a large coal shed filled the northern section of Old Tolbooth Wynd (OS 1:1056 map). During the 20th century, the area became a bus depot and car park before being unused and earmarked for development as part of the Caltongate scheme (2014). The walls seen here comprise stone lower portion with brick above forming arched and squared 'openings'. This was probably part of a vast coal shed on the site, which had railway lines running into it, seen on the OS 1:500 map of 1894.

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1427891

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