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        School for the Deaf 
      Donaldson's
        College -  now a School for the Deaf - is at West Coats, about a
        mile to the west of the West End of Princes Street.  It was opened
        in 1850 by Queen Victoria.  It is reported that she suggested
        exchanging it for her Holyrood
        House. 
      The building was completed in
        1851.  The  
      Architect was 
        William Henry Playfair  |