View from south west from window of City Chambers overlooking Waverley Station

Description View from south west from window of City Chambers overlooking Waverley Station

Catalogue Number SC 466208

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 4182 CN

Scope and Content View of the former North British Hotel, Princes Street, Edinburgh from the City Chambers in the Old Town 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. This huge square hotel stands on the south corner of Princes Street, with its clock tower as one of Edinburgh's most familiar landmarks. The sheds of Waverley Station are in the foreground, beneath the span of the North Bridge leading from the Old Town. The Balmoral Hotel stands on the site of a small group of houses built in the 1770s on the south side of Princes Street. No further building west of this site was allowed, and the land was to be 'kept and preserved in perpetuity as pleasure ground.' Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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