IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Queen Street, EDINBURGH, EH2 3NS
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Queen Street, EH2 3NS 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
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Notes
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Image Listing (932 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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New Town staircase, Queen Street
The internal staircase in the home of Dr. James Young Simpson at 52 Queen Street.
Image: © kim traynor
Taken: 24 Sep 2011
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Simpson House
No 52 Queen Street was the home of one of Scotland's most famous sons, Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870), who as Professor of Midwifery at the University of Edinburgh pioneered the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic in childbirth. It is now the offices of a children's charity. One rather feels that there ought to be a prominent plaque on the exterior of the building.
Image: © Anne Burgess
Taken: 9 Jun 2013
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54 Queen Street
An elaborate entrance to a Georgian town house.
Image: © Anne Burgess
Taken: 9 Jun 2013
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House of Dr. James Young Simpson, Queen Street
The house where Simpson first experimented with chloroform in 1847 by inhaling it along with friends after dinner and remaining unconscious until the following morning. He was probably not, however, the first doctor to send his friends to sleep after a dinner party. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Young_Simpson
The house is now a training centre for qualifications in counselling children and young people.
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Image: © kim traynor
Taken: 3 Aug 2011
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Terraced buildings in Queen Street Edinburgh
The buildings overlook Queen Street Gardens, on the left of the photo.
Image: © Rod Allday
Taken: 5 Apr 2012
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James Young Simpson House, Queen Street
This is the room where, in 1847, Simpson performed his chloroform experiment on two dinner guests who, like himself, were rendered unconscious until the following morning. The house is now a training centre for those involved in counselling children. The rag dolls on the table are almost symbolic of the children whose mothers benefited in childbirth from the anaesthetic properties of the drug.
Image: © kim traynor
Taken: 24 Sep 2011
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55-57 Queen Street
A triple doorway is unusual in the Georgian streets of the New Town; the central door may have been a later addition. What originally caught my eye is the fine wrought iron work of the railing and lamp.
Image: © Anne Burgess
Taken: 9 Jun 2013
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Garden of 52 Queen Street
The surprisingly confined garden space behind the house of Dr. James Young Simpson illustrates why the residents needed the larger private gardens on the opposite side of Queen Street.
Image: © kim traynor
Taken: 24 Sep 2011
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Queen Street tenement back
Considering the grandeur and elegance of their frontages the New Town dwellings in Queen Street were provided with only modestly sized plots to the rear which slopes steeply upwards towards Princes Street. The privately owned but communal Queen Street Gardens were provided at the front of the houses for leisurely outdoor strolls.
Image: © kim traynor
Taken: 14 Sep 2012
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Old coach house, Hill Street North Lane
A Grade-B listed building of character, surviving from the late 18th century. It was formerly part of a row but now stands in isolation.
Image: © kim traynor
Taken: 14 Sep 2012
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