OS1/11/100/136
List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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LITTLE LOCHEND CLOSE | Little Lochend Close Little Lochend Close |
Name above entrance P. O. [Post Office] Directory |
[Situation] North Side of Canongate. A tolerably wide close branching of North side of Canongate it [is] well paved and clean. Houses are [---] good they are inhabited by mechanics and others, |
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LOCHEND CLOSE | Lochend Close Lochend Close |
Name above entrance P. O. [Post Office] Directory |
[Situation] From Canongate to North Back of Canongate A wide close extending from [Canongate] to North Back of Canongate. it [is] well paved and drained. The [houses] are of a tolerably good [class] generally four Stories high [occupied] by workpeople of different [employment] At the North end is the Gas [Works] |
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HIGHLAND SOCIETY'S SCHOOL | Highland Society's School Highland Society's School |
Archibald McPhail Schoolmaster Amelia Rutherford Schoolmistress |
[Situation] In Little Lochend Close A good house four stories high, the property of the Highland Society for the [promotion of] christian Knowledge It is (at present) [occupied] by one of the Society's Schools in Which are taught [Arithmetic] reading writing. Geography Book keeping [Mathematics] and religious instructions |
Continued entries/extra info
[Page] 136Parish of Canongate.
Transcriber's notes
Words lost in foldThis Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 30
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056
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Bizzy- Moderator, Molly Miller
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