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East Crosscauseway. Corner of Murray Street, at 52 East Crosscauseway. The Brewery chimney at the far end of the street is at the junction of East Crosscauseway and St. Leonard's Street. Crosscauseway, on the south side of the street, are on the right of the picture. The chimney is apparently not that in the previous image Coll-1167/B/26/19/1. Handwritten title by R. Dykes.

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Back of East Crosscauseway, looking towards the brewery on the corner of St Leonard's Street. The gable with the row of chimney-pots appears on the previous image Coll-1167/B/26/19/2.

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Note that the tenements on the right are or brick above the ground floor. 33 East Crosscauseway was entered through a pend. The Block at the end of the lane was demolished c. 1927. These buildings would presumably be at right angles to Nicolson Street. Handwritten title by R. Dykes.

Scope and Contents The original envelope containing the slide had been titled "Causewayside" but the image is actually of"Crosscauseway". The configuration of the chimney stacks and visible formation of windows and stonework (the blackened stones below the right-hand chimney stack may still be seen, (c. 1990). Image Coll-1167/B/26/19/6 suggests that the tall building in the background is a still existing (1990) tenement on the east side of St. Patrick's Street, view from the south end of Cowan's Close. The...

Scope and Contents The original envelope containing the slide had been titled "Causewayside" but the image is actually of"Crosscauseway". See Coll-1167/B/26/19/5 and note the configuration of the roof-scape of the tenement in the background almost certainly proves that it is a building still standing (1990) on the east side of St. Patrick and Clerk Street. The building on the left must, therefore, be the other side of that shown in Coll-1167/B/26/19/5. The photograph must therefore have been taken in Cowan's...

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The image shows the backs of tenements with tiled-roof buildings at the back. Back courts are bounded by stone walls. See alos Coll-1167/B/26/19/5-6. Handwritten title by R. Dykes.

Scope and Contents Off Crosscauseway. The location has so far proved impossible to trace. Possibilities are, off East Crosscauseway, Lamb's Close, Kennedy's Close, Murray Street, Dalrymple Place, all demolished in the Edinburgh Improvement Scheme, c. 1930. The Causewayside closes were also suggested, particularly "Jew's Close" near Sciennes Hill House Place, Braid Place, with the old Jewish cemetery dating from 1820, but for various reasons this suggestion is untenable. After much difficulty, the writing on...

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This is the same street as shown in image Coll-1167/B/26/19/8. Handwritten title by R. Dykes. A print of this glass plate negative was exhibited in the "Squalor and Romance" section of Geddes' replacement "Cities and Town Planning Exhibition".

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The title on the original envelope containing the glass plate negative read "Crosscause", this presumably should have read "Waste Ground, Back of Crosscauseway". Handwritten title by R. Dykes.

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Probably read: St. Leonard's School, Girls' Entrance, Forbes Street. Handwritten title by R. Dykes.