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General view of Working Men's Home, 70-76 Grove Street, Edinburgh, taken from the south-east.
DP 204093
Description General view of Working Men's Home, 70-76 Grove Street, Edinburgh, taken from the south-east.
Date 4/8/2014
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number DP 204093
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content The building currently known as Brooks Hotel, at Nos 70-76 Grove Street, is the only listed building in Grove Street south of the former Caledonian Railway (now the West Approach Road). It was built in 1864 to designs by the architect Frederick Thomas Pilkington (1832-98) and can be seen as a sister building to the more ornamental Nos 158-64 Fountainbridge. Nos 70-76 Grove Street was built as the first Edinburgh Industrial Brigade Home for Helping Destitute Working Lads and functioned as such until 1899. From c.1900 until the 1970s it operated as under the name Grove House, advertising itself as a ‘superior lodging-house for working men', before being converted into a hotel (the Herald House Hotel). More recently (2013), it was refurbished as the upmarket Brooks Hotel.
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