View from north west of the North British Station Hotel also showing Waverley Gardens, the North Bridge, Calton Hill, Waterloo Place and cars parked on the street.

Description View from north west of the North British Station Hotel also showing Waverley Gardens, the North Bridge, Calton Hill, Waterloo Place and cars parked on the street.

Date c. 1930

Collection Records of Scottish Colorfoto Ltd, photographers, Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 466207

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of ED 9287

Scope and Content North British Hotel, east end of Princes Street, Edinburgh The North British Hotel, designed by Sir William Hamilton Beattie in a competition of 1895, was completed in 1902. Originally built as a North British Railway hotel, it became the Balmoral after extensive renovation in 1991 at a cost of £23 million. The huge square block of the hotel, described as 16th-century Franco-German, is ornamented with false balconies, bow windows and dormer windows. The massive tower, 58m high, has a very large clock and an open ironwork lantern on top. William Hamilton Beattie's winning design for the North British Hotel in 1895 is said to have been influenced by Charles Jenner, whose Princes Street department store was also designed by Beattie. Both were fireproof, with floors by Stuart's Granolithic. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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