EDINBURGH ANCIENT AND MODERN
A LESSON FOR OUR TIMES
Architecture / History
NOT ANY OLD IRON
Living in a World Heritage Site, we tend – rightly – to focus on the preservation and restoration of its finest features.
But sometimes, the weathering and distress of our environs, including its more prosaic elements, has a poignant charm all of its own.
This Corporation lamppost on Calton Road is a case in point.
NEWS FROM THE MEWS 14
April 1863
WORKING MEN’S HOUSES AT STOCKBRIDGE.
Last night, the foundation-stone of a range of houses at Stockbridge, intended for working men, was laid by Dr Begg, in presence of a considerable number of spectators.[1]
It will be remembered that about eighteen months ago Dr Begg inaugurated, by the same ceremony, the commencement of the erection of another row of houses for a similar purpose at the west end of Water Lane,[2] leading from Canonmills to Stockbridge.