Cranston's Old
Waverley Hotel was a temperance Hotel on the corner of Princes
Street and South St David Street, across the road from Jenners'
Department Store.
Lennie
The corner shop on the
ground floor of Princes Street belonged to
Lennie, an optician that
also sold photogrpahic equipment. Lennie's shop was on this
corner of Princes Street from 1856 until 1921.
G W Wilson
It was from Cranston's
Old Waverley Hotel that the Aberdeen Photographer, George
Washington Wilson took his 'instantaneous views' on his visits to
Edinburgh between 1859 and 1864.
These were described
as 'instantaneous' because the exposures were short enough to
capture passers by as individual figures, rather than as blurs, on
his photos.
No publisher's name or
date appears on the postcard at the top of this page, and it has
not been sent through the post. I don't know who published
this card or when.