General view from South West of John Knox's House and Moubray House
ED 3267
Description General view from South West of John Knox's House and Moubray House
Date c. 1953
Collection H D Wyllie
Catalogue Number ED 3267
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 556286
Scope and Content Moubray House, High Street, Edinburgh Moubray House, originally built in 1477 for Andrew Moubray, a wealthy merchant and burgess of the city, is probably the oldest surviving house in Edinburgh. His shop was on the ground floor. The outside stair, a reminder that the ground floor was once used for shops or for keeping pigs, leads to the first floor. An internal newel-stair, containing an old ship's timber, studded with nails, leads to the floors above. Daniel Defoe, author of 'Robinson Crusoe' and editor of the 'Edinburgh Courant' in 1710, lived in Moubray House. Thought to be an English agent when the Treaty of Union was signed in 1707, Defoe was pelted with stones when he looked out of his window. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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