General view
SC 466305
Description General view
Date c. 1920 to 1929
Collection Records of Scottish Colorfoto Ltd, photographers, Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 466305
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 9316
Scope and Content General Post Office, Waterloo Place, Edinburgh The General Post Office, on the corner of Waterloo Place and the North Bridge, was designed by Robert Mathieson in 1861-6 in an Italian Renaissance style. Originally two storeys high, it doubled in size in the 1890s, and increased again in 1908-9. The post office has a rusticated ground floor and Corinthian columns on the two floors above. The final extension to the building increased its height to seven storeys, the bottom two completely underground. The post office occupies the site of Shakespeare Square, a 'grim little enclosure', built between 1772-8. This tiny square had a few lodging houses, taverns, oyster cellars and the Theatre Royal, one of the first buildings of the New Town, built in 1768. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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