OS1/11/87/41

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BOWERS HALL Bowers Hall
Bowers Hall
Bowers Hall
R. Finch
Mr McDougal
Post Off. Direcy [Office Directory]
[Situation] About three chains W.S. [West South] West of Silverfield.
A dwelling house with Market garden attached occupd [occupied] by Mr Lindsay
PAINT AND COLOUR WORKS [Silverfield] Silverfield Paint & Colour
Silverfield Paint & Colour
R. French
Mr McDougal
[Situation] At the Western end of Spences Place Gt. [Great] Junction St.
A few house occupied as a Paint & Colour Works.
PILRIG HOUSE Pilrig House R. French
Mr McDougal
Mr Balfour
[Situation] Nine chains East of North of Bonnington Toll Bar (at the North end of the Edinburgh and Leith Cemetery).
A large old Mansion house erected in 1638 by the Earl of Roseberry from whose family it has passed into the possession of the present proprietor Mr Balfour

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Parish of St Cuthberts

Paint & Colour Works [note]
N.B. Paint & Colour works only to be written on Plan as it is in Silverfield

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This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 16
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1:1056

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