Paradise Cottages. General view. Caption (above): 'The Cottages stood in a slight hollow on the east side of Morningside Road, between the Volunteer Arms and Jordan Lane.' Titled (beneath): 'Paradi ...
ED 15650
Description Paradise Cottages. General view. Caption (above): 'The Cottages stood in a slight hollow on the east side of Morningside Road, between the Volunteer Arms and Jordan Lane.' Titled (beneath): 'Paradise Cottages, Morningside, about 1865. Photographed by David Deuchar, my uncle.'
Date 1865
Collection Survey of a Private Collection: The Braid and Morningside Album
Catalogue Number ED 15650
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 565071
Scope and Content Paradise Cottages, Old Morningside Village, Edinburgh The old village of Morningside, once described as 'a row of thatched cottages, a line of trees and a blacksmith's forge', dates from the 18th century, when it was a country village surrounded by farms and estates that provided work for its inhabitants. This row of small cottages, with pantiled roofs and single chimneys, stood in a slight hollow on the east side of Morningside Road, in an area behind the original village inn, between Canaan Lane and Jordan Lane, known as 'Paradise'. The area of 'Paradise', and its inhabitants, the 'Paradisers', formed a tiny community of its own within the 'lands of Canaan'. Its gardens were known, in local parlance, as 'the kailyards of Paradise'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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