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21 - 30 Drummond Place View from East along North side of Drummond Place
SC 512126
Description 21 - 30 Drummond Place View from East along North side of Drummond Place
Collection Photographs by H D Wyllie, photographer, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 512126
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 3389
Scope and Content Nos 21-30 Drummond Place, Edinburgh Drummond Place, a U-shaped tree-filled square at the east end of Great King Street, was named after the 18th-century Lord Provost of Edinburgh, George Drummond. Built 1806-23, it forms one of the two great balancing squares of the northern New Town. Drummond Place was built as a series of symmetrical blocks by Robert Reid, with later revisions by Thomas Bonnar. The style is similar to Great King Street, with each block having a palace-front façade and a centrepiece with Ionic pilasters. The most colourful resident of Drummond Place was the eccentric Charles Sharpe (c.1781-1851) who lived at No 28. A noted wit, antique collector, and friend of Sir Walter Scott, his visiting card bore only the musical notation for C sharp. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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Attribution: © Courtesy of HES. Photographs by H D Wyllie, photographer, Edinburgh, Scotland
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