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View from West
ED 3261
Description View from West
Date c. 1950
Collection Photographs by H D Wyllie, photographer, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number ED 3261
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 488885
Scope and Content Huntly House, Canongate, Edinburgh Huntly House, 'erroneously identified as the lodging of George, 6th Earl and 1st Marquis of Huntly' dates from the early 16th century. Its name may come from a later tenant, a Duchess of the Gordons of Huntly who had a flat here in the 18th century. The house, bought by the Incorporation of Hammermen in 1647 as a meeting house, was altered by Robert Mylne who raised the front by 'two timber-faced and harled storeys with three broad gables to the street' which remains its most noticeable feature. The Hammermen, the most influential of the trades incorporations of the Canongate in the 17th century, were smiths and metalworkers and included blacksmiths, swordmakers and watchmakers. Their patron was St Eloi. 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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