Older type houses in Old Edinburgh. The image on your left is not Edinburgh but the Shambles in York. The image on your right is the West Bow house on the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh (Where the upper bow is now). The Shambles in York gives us a idea of the old tenement buildings in Edinburgh before the improvement act. The Great Fire of 1824 destroys the buildings between the Tron Kirk (which loses its spire) and Parliament Close just months after James Braidwood organises Britains first municipal fire brigade. This was the time we seen most of the old timber frontages pulled down, then in 1848 Trinity College Church dismantled to make way for the expansion of North Bridge station.1854 - Several passers-by killed when part of the old town wall collapses on the west side of Leith Wynd; town council orders removal of a 150 foot long stretch of remaining wall south of the collapsed section. Edinburgh was rapidly changing in this time. The Edinburgh City Improvement Act, conceived in the wake of Littlejohns report, receives the Royal assent and initiates the rebuilding of the Old Town and only some of the older buildings like John Knox House ect have been saved by Patrick Geddes. Images copyright of Historic Edinburgh Tours
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