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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
GILES' STREET Giles' Street Corner Ticket
James McMartin Giles Street
George Crawford
Edinbr [Edinburgh] & Leith Directory
[Situation] Extending Circuitously from Kirkgate to Sheriff Bray [Brae]. A long narrow Street leding from Kirkgate to Sheriff Brae. it is paved and lighted with [gas]. The houses are very irregularly built from one to 3 storeys high partly occupied as shops storehouses etc. and the remainder by Mechanics etc.
BRICKWORK CLOSE Brickwork Close Peter Anderson
James Martin
Edinboro [Edinburgh] & Leith Directory
[Situation] N.W. [North West] Direction between Giles Street & Kirkgate. A close leading from Kirkgate to Giles Street. the houses are very irregularly built from 1 to 3 storeys high in bad repair occupied by the poorer class of Labourers.

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Parish of South Leith

Giles Street Object: Narrow Street
Brickwork Close Object: Close

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