Cranston Hotels advertisement, Abbeyhill Junction
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Cranston Hotels advertisement, Abbeyhill Junction
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 22 Feb 2010
A faded advertisement for Cranston Temperance Hotels in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London, partly obscured by scaffolding on industrial dwellings undergoing a roof repair. The advertisement was positioned to be viewed from trains approaching Edinburgh on the east coast main line and from the platforms and south-bound trains at the long-defunct Abbeyhill Station. At one time through trains ran from Leith Central to Glasgow Central. Robert Cranston was a Scottish Chartist who opened a coffee house and temperance hotel on Princes Street in Edinburgh in 1843. The “Old Waverley Hotel” is still going strong today. When Victorian road improvements were made, Cranston Street off the Canongate was named in his honour. "Statistics prove that the Scotch are the most drunken people on the face of the earth." -- Dr. George Bell, Day and Night in the Wynds of Edinburgh, 1849 See also Image
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