15 Nelson Street Detail of finials, letter box and gate fastening.
SC 516027
Description 15 Nelson Street Detail of finials, letter box and gate fastening.
Catalogue Number SC 516027
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 4059
Scope and Content Letter-box, No 15 Nelson Street, Edinburgh Nelson Street is a broad thoroughfare of handsome tenements running downhill from Abercromby Place to Drummond Place with a side-step to the east at Northumberland Street. Building started in 1812. This cast iron letter-box is fitted to the railings of the gate leading to the basement area. Such basements became houses separate from the main door flats at ground-floor level in the late Georgian period. The letterbox is a later, Victorian, addition. Letter plates were probably not fitted in street doors until the Victorian period when the 'penny post' was introduced in 1840. The earliest were plain, fitted vertically on the centre line of the door, and had a small opening unsuitable for modern mail. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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