Engraving from Old & New Edinburgh - published 1890 The Exchange Buildings Leith |
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Leith - The Exchange Buildings
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Leith - The Exchange Buildings |
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The Exchange Buildings in Leith, at the foot of Constitution Street, opposite Bernard Street, were build in a Grecian style. It was reported in Old & New Edinburgh in 1890: [The Exchange Buildings] include public reading and assembly rooms; but of late years, assemblies have seldom been held in Leith, though they were usual enough in the last century. In the 'Weekly Magazine' for 1776, we read of a handsome subscription being sent by "the subscribers to a dancing assembly in Leith" through Sir William Forbes, for the relief of our troops in Boston. |
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