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Detail of original iron grill below shop frontage at 36 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh.
DP 161665
Description Detail of original iron grill below shop frontage at 36 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh.
Date 26/9/2013
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number DP 161665
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content This shows the shop front at 36 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh. One of the earliest major redevelopments in this area was the creation of St Mary’s Street (along with Jeffrey Street to the north) as the north-south route over the ridge of the Old Town. The Lord Provost at the time, William Chambers (1800-83, Lord Provost 1865-9) implemented the widening of several narrow streets and wynds in the Old Town as part of the City’s Improvement Act 1867. Alongside this, tenements were improved and new streets were created to provide access through the area. St Mary’s Street was built more or less along the line of St Mary’s Wynd in 1867-9 as a result of this Act. The tenements on the east side replaced smaller scale houses which were severely overcrowded, and were built in the Scots Baronial style to designs by architects David Cousins (1809-78) and John Lessels (1809-83), featuring turrets, crowstepped gables and carved stone finials, with much improved facilities internally. Most of the shopfronts on St Mary's Street have been upgraded but many retain original features including decorative cast iron grilles below the windows, like this one at 36 St Mary's Street. This design is a series of double interlocking circles. 'Ghost signage' for a previous occupant of the shop can be seen painted on the fascia at 36 St Mary's Street, and reads 'M. SHEERAN. EASTERN LOAN OFFICE SALE ROOM'. Above this is an even fainter sign for 'M KELLY'. Michael Sheeran was a pawnbroker who operated from the High Street, but this was another of his premises for disposal of uncollected goods. Another sign for 'M Sheeran' can be seen above the first-floor windows at 66-68 St Mary's Street.
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