IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
High Street, EDINBURGH, EH1 1SW
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to High Street, EH1 1SW by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Notes
- Clicking on the map will re-center to the selected point.
- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (3181 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
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John Knox House, High Street, The Royal Mile
Reputedly the oldest dwellinghouse in Edinburgh.
Image: © Bill Henderson
Taken: 21 Dec 2007
0.01 miles
5
Carved lintel, Bailie Fyfe's Close, High Street (1982)
"Enemis of God and the King to the Earth did me ding* doun.1572" — a reminder of troubled times, namely the civil war between the 'Queen's men' and 'King's men' during the Lang Siege of Edinburgh Castle, 1571-3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_civil_war
The building has since been demolished and the lintel removed. The close is named after a Senior Bailie who lived here in 1686.
*strike
Image: © kim traynor
Taken: Unknown
0.01 miles
6
The Mitre, Edinburgh
On the Royal Mile. This photo taken during the Edinburgh Festival.
Image: © Graham Hogg
Taken: 2 Aug 2003
0.01 miles
7
Thistle Do Nicely
Gift shop with a Scottish flavour on High Street.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 22 Jun 2019
0.01 miles
10
Heave Awa' House, High Street
An elaborately decorated ornamental scroll over the entrance to Paisley Close in the High Street commemorates an incident following a tenement collapse in 1861 which claimed numerous lives. During the rescue operations a voice was heard shouting, "Pull awa' lads, I'm no deid yet!" It came from a boy called John Geddes who was pinned under the debris but subsequently saved. One of the onlookers was Charles Dickens who happened to be visiting the city at the time. The seven-storey tenement had been occupied by twenty-five families with lodgers. Of the estimated 100 people who had been asleep in the building, thirty-five were killed and many injured. Within a year the Council had appointed Edinburgh's first Medical Officer of Health who was asked for an immediate report on sanitary conditions in the city and proposals for improvement. The scroll, with its slightly anglicised wording, "Heave awa' chaps. I'm no' dead yet", was added to the new building erected a year after the disaster.
Image
Image: © kim traynor
Taken: 3 Jun 2009
0.02 miles