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The corner of
Cowgate
and
St Mary's Street
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Photo 1 - 2009
©
Copyright:
Peter Stubbs - please contact
peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk
Photograph taken: October 26, 2009
Photo 2 - 1911 to 1916
© Reproduced
with acknowledgement to John Stirling, Currie, Edinburgh: Oct 22, 2009
Photographer not known
Photo 3 -
1951
©
Forbes Wilson, Guilford, Surrey, England
Photo taken: December 1951
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The corner of Cowgate and St Mary's
Street
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Location
The first photograph above was taken in October 2009.
The second was taken almost a hundred years earlier, between
1911 and 1916.
The roads in both of these photos above are:
- LEADING TOWARDS LEFT BORDER:
Cowgate
- LEADING TOWARDS RIGHT BORDER:
St Mary Street
- LEADING TOWARDS LOWER LEFT CORNER:
Pleasance
- LEADING TOWARDS LOWER RIGHT
CORNER: Holyrood Road
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Photos 1 and 2
Comparing the two
photos, we see:
- The shop belonging to Joseph Weinberg, Furniture and
Tool dealer at 85 St Mary Street and the low buildings beside it
have been demolished and replaced by a new hotel:
Travelodge, Edinbrugh Central.
- A Holiday Inn has been built a little further up
Cowgate, at the junction of Cowgate and South Gray's Close,
centre-left in the 2009 photo.
- The old lamp post on the extreme right has been replaced by
a sandwich board advertising pizza, falafel, panini and coffee.
- The shop in the bottom left corner of the old photo
has been taken away BUT the high wall behind it, part of a
Salvation Army building has survived. The same piece of
stonework can be seen jutting out into the sky on both photos. |
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Photo 3
Thank you to Forbes
Wilson, now living in Guildford, Surrey, England for sending me
Photo 3 above, after seeing Photos 1 and 2.
Forbes' photograph
was taken in December 1951. I feel that it really captures
the atmosphere of a damp and misty day in Edinburgh.
Acknowledgement:
Forbes Wilson, Guildford, Surrey, England: October 27,
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