OS1/11/100/136

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
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,
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]
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

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[Page] 136
Parish of Canongate.

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This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 30
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056

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