General view of Fleshmarket Close from Cockburn Street
ED 3270
Description General view of Fleshmarket Close from Cockburn Street
Date c. 1950
Collection H D Wyllie
Catalogue Number ED 3270
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 426683
Scope and Content Fleshmarket Close, High Street, Edinburgh Fleshmarket Close, so narrow 'that there is hardly space for fresh air', led off the High Street down to a slaughterhouse at the Nor' Loch. It was interrupted by the building of Cockburn Street in 1856. The Close, named after the meat market that was once here, has its entrance in High Street and a steep descent to the North. The tenements and Close were restored in the 1980s. Fleshmarket Close was home to Henry Dundas, later Viscount Melville, the 'uncrowned King of Scots' in the 18th century; and where William Creech started his publishing business in a cellar, and Deacon William Brodie frequented a gambling club. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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