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View from Waverley gardens looking west also showing the Castle, National Gallery and Scott Monument, inscr; 'PRINCES STREET & CASTLE. EDINBR'
SC 466064
Description View from Waverley gardens looking west also showing the Castle, National Gallery and Scott Monument, inscr; 'PRINCES STREET & CASTLE. EDINBR'
Date c. 1890
Catalogue Number SC 466064
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 9318
Scope and Content Late 19th century view of Princes Street, looking westwards Princes Street, the southern street of James Craig's New Town, was built as a long row of plain terraced houses on the north side, with their own pleasure gardens on the south side, and splendid views over to the Castle and the Old Town. By the 1890s, Princes Street was a busy thoroughfare, with Victorian hotels and department stores replacing many of the original Georgian houses. In 1874 a vegetable market, the original Waverley Market (left), opened with a roof-garden at street level. An Act of 1776 forbade building on the south side of Princes Street west from the present Waverley Steps. Only a vegetable market and some workshops below street-level were allowed. The land was to be 'kept and preserved in perpetuity as pleasure ground'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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