Download or read book Lost Edinburgh in Colour written by Liz Hanson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful collection of rare and previously unpublished images of Edinburgh a century ago, presented in full colour.
Download or read book Lost Edinburgh written by Liz Hanson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully illustrated exploration of Edinburgh's well-known and lesser-known places and buildings that have been lost over the years.
Download or read book Lost Edinburgh written by Hamish Coghill and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the stories behind the many buildings lost to history in Scotland’s capital city. What happened to Edinburgh’s once notorious but picturesque Tolbooth Prison? Where was the Black Turnpike, once a dominant building in the town? Why has one of the New Town designer’s major layouts been all but obliterated? What else has been lost in Edinburgh? From Edinburgh’s mean beginnings—“wretched accommodation, no comfortable houses, no soft beds,” visiting French knights complained in 1341—it went on to attract some of the world’s greatest architects to design and build and shape a unique city. But over the centuries many of those fine buildings have gone. Some were destroyed by invasion and civil strife, some simply collapsed with old age and neglect, and others were swept away in the “improvements” of the nineteenth century. Yet more fell to the developers’ swathe of destruction in the twentieth century. Much of the medieval architecture vanished in the Old Town, Georgian Squares were attacked, Princes Street ruined, old tenements razed in huge slum clearance drives, and once familiar and much-loved buildings vanished. The changing pattern of industry, social habits, health service, housing, and road systems all took their toll; not even the city wall was immune. The buildings that stood in the way of what was deemed progress are the heritage of Lost Edinburgh. In this informative book, author Hamish Coghill sets out to trace many of the lost buildings and find out why they were doomed. Lavishly illustrated, Lost Edinburgh is a fascinating insight into an ever-changing cityscape.
Download or read book Edinburgh written by Michael Fry and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman, said that Edinburgh was the most beautiful city in Europe. Like some other great cities it is set on seven hills. But only one of these, Rome, rivals Edinburgh in matching the beauty of its setting with the stateliness of its buildings. Edinbrugh, too, provides the backdrop to much of the dark drama of the Scottish past, from Mary Queen of Scots to Bonnie Prince Charlie and beyond. Michael Fry, who has lived and worked there for nearly forty years, provides a compellingly readable account of this great city, from the earliest times to the present, balancing Edinburgh's cultural, political and social history, and painting a vivid portrait of a city - that like Stevenson's Dr Jekyll - is both dark and light, both dark and light, both 'Auld Reekie' and 'Athens of the North'. ‘Impressive ... in the style of Peter Ackroyd’s history of London’ Magnus Linklator, Spectator 'No one interested in the history of Edinburgh, and indeed Scotland, should be without it’ Allan Massie,Scotsman
Download or read book Publications of the Scottish History Society written by Scottish History Society and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Contribution to the Bibliography of Scottish Topography written by Sir Arthur Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Auction sale catalogues of items other than books and manuscripts written by Dowell's, ltd and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book People Centred Methodologies for Heritage Conservation written by Rebecca Madgin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents methodological approaches that can help explore the ways in which people develop emotional attachments to historic urban places. With a focus on the powerful relations that form between people and places, this book uses people-centred methodologies to examine the ways in which emotional attachments can be accessed, researched, interpreted and documented as part of heritage scholarship and management. It demonstrates how a range of different research methods drawn primarily from disciplines across the arts, humanities and social sciences can be used to better understand the cultural values of heritage places. In so doing, the chapters bring together a series of diverse case studies from both established and early-career scholars in Australia, China, Europe, North America and Central America. These case studies outline methods that have been successfully employed to consider attachments between people and historic places in different contexts. This book advocates a need to shift to a more nuanced understanding of people’s relations to historic places by situating emotional attachments at the core of urban heritage thinking and practice. It offers a practical guide for both academics and industry professionals towards people-centred methodologies for urban heritage conservation.
Download or read book Edinburgh Illustrations written by Rosaline Masson and published by ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Example in this ebook PART I THE OLD TOWN CHAPTER I EDINBURGH CASTLE: ITS LEGENDS AND ROMANCES There, watching high the least alarms, Thy rough, rude fortress gleams afar; Like some bold veteran, gray in arms, And marked with many a scamy scar; The ponderous wall and massy bar, Grim rising o’er the rugged rock, Have oft withstood assailing war, And oft repelled the invader’s shock. Burns. THE great line of east coast lying between the two headlands of Norfolk and Aberdeenshire is nowhere broken by another so bold and graceful indentation as that of the Firth of Forth. The Forth has its birth among hills that look down on Loch Katrine and Loch Lomond; flows thence in a pretty tortuous course towards the east, forming a boundary-line between the countries of the Gael and the Sassenach; is replenished by the Teith from the Trossachs and by the Allan from Strathmore; meanders at the foot of Stirling Castle, and seems never to weary of weaving its silver windings into that green expanse of country where most the Scottish imagination loves to linger; until at last, when there is poured into it the Devon from the Ochils, its channel widens to the sea somewhat suddenly. But even here the diverging banks, once so near, show an occasional friendly inclination to meet; and at one point there is only a mile of blue water and white waves between them, and then the view widens and the shores part irrevocably, the one stretching away to the extreme “east neuk” of Fife, and looking To Norroway, to Norroway, To Norroway ower the faem! and the other rolling with softer curves to the South and England, while the great German Ocean ebbs and flows between. The point where the banks of the Forth are but a mile apart is now spanned by that triumph of engineering, the Forth Bridge,—the largest bridge in the world; but in olden days there was here a famous crossing, and the names of the villages on the opposite banks, North Queensferry and South Queensferry, still carry the mind back to the days when Malcolm Canmore’s stately Saxon Queen, Saint Margaret of Scotland, was ferried across here on her way between the palace of Dunfermline and the Castle of Edinburgh. Edinburgh was not then, nor for centuries after, the Capital of Scotland, but merely a useful stronghold near the Borders,—a great rock rising abruptly among woods and lochs and hills, on which, from before the earliest legends of history, a fortress had stood,—an impregnable castle, built so long ago that none knows its origin, nor even the origin of its name. Stow’s Chronicle, indeed, dates the foundation of the “Castell of Maydens” 989 B.C., which is a sensational date to mention lightly to the inquiring tourist from the newer world. It is supposed that the name “Castell of Maydens” was gained because, in legendary days, certain Pictish princesses were kept there for safety; and certainly, from those hazy times right on till the time of Mary, Queen of Scots, when she was sent to the Castle for security before the birth of King James, Edinburgh Castle has always been a useful place of safety to which to send royalties and rebels. The earliest authentic romance of Edinburgh Castle is that of Malcolm Canmore and Queen Margaret; and the oldest building extant in Edinburgh is Queen Margaret’s chapel in the Castle. The well-known story of Queen Margaret, the grand-niece of Edward the Confessor, is that she and her brother Edgar Atheling and her sister Christian all fled from England and William the Conqueror, and were wrecked in the Firth of Forth. The King of Scotland, Malcolm Canmore, was the son of that Duncan whom Macbeth put out of the way—in Scottish history as well as in Shakespeare’s play,—and he had fled from the usurper, and had spent his years of exile at the Saxon Court of Edward the Confessor. To be continue in this ebook
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Michelin Green Guide Great Britain written by Michelin and published by Michelin Travel & Lifestyle. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly updated Green Guide Great Britain in eBook format features dozens of different cultures and landscapes that make up Great Britain. Discover its 3 unique countries through Michelin's driving and walking tours, celebrated star-rating system for attractions and activities, respected maps, full-color photos, and recommendations for places to stay and eat. Explore the British Museum, beach-hop on the Pembrokeshire coast, or sample Scotch whisky along The Whisky Coast Trail. With this guide you'll see the best of Great Britain. In this eBook you’ll find: • Full-color photos, and plenty of detail travelers look for. • New "Inspiration" section for inspired travel ideas. • Practical Information section, now split between "Before You Go" and "On Arrival" for quicker reference. • Attractions reviewed and rated, using Michelin's celebrated star-rating system. • Walk-throughs of major museums, galleries, churches and attractions. Illustrations and floor plans are often included. • Michelin walking and driving tours with directions, mileage and travel time. Journey into the past with a stroll along the 1.2 mile historic London Wall Walk, or drive along the bonny banks of Loch Lomond for scenic pleasure. • Comprehensive illustrated sections on modern-day Britain, its history (with time line), politics, art and culture—all written by experts in their fields. • Sidebars throughout the guide on such intriguing topics as well-dressing in Wales to whisky trailing in Scotland. • Visitor and contact information given for every attraction, opening hours, entry fees, tour times, phone, website. • Recommendations for great places to eat and stay in each region. • Detailed information on transportation, road regulations, plus distance and temperature charts, health and safety tips, event calendar, and useful websites. • Colorful, easy-to-read Michelin area maps, detailed city maps, relief maps and themed maps including climate and time zones. Download onto any kind of eReader (tablet or smartphone), and you’re set to go. Use the guide to orient yourself at any time with a treasure trove of 50 detailed maps, even if you’re offline with no Wi-Fi or 3G connection. With the interactive navigation, it’s easy to move within the guide. Click from the index to a point of interest or from a sight description to its location on the map. With one touch, you can even phone an establishment directly from the page or click through to a website for more information. No matter what eReader you use, the Green GuideGreat Britain eBook helps you craft a trip at your own pace and enjoy all of Britain’s charms.
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