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General view of Brodie's Close.
ED 3302
Description General view of Brodie's Close.
Date c. 1950
Collection Photographs by H D Wyllie, photographer, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number ED 3302
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 426600
Scope and Content Brodie's Close, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh Brodie's Close, formerly Little's Close, is typical of many narrow lanes that led off the Royal Mile down to the Cowgate. The close, usually named after its most famous resident or by the activity which went on there, could be closed at night by a gate. Brodie's Close, so narrow 'that there is hardly space for fresh air', was where, in the 18th century, the infamous Deacon Brodie, 'well seen in good society' lived in a house on the first floor. William Brodie, Town Councillor and Deacon of the Wrights or cabinetmakers, was a respectable citizen by day but a thief by night. He was publicly hanged on a gibbet of his own design in 1788 after being caught robbing the Custom and Excise Office. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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Attribution: © Courtesy of HES. (Photographs by H D Wyllie, photographer, Edinburgh, Scotland).
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