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Lost Edinburgh (Paperback)
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Lost Edinburgh (Paperback)
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List price R479
Loot Price R438
Discovery Miles 4 380
You Save R41 (9%)
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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 which stood in the way of what was deemed progress are
the heritage of Lost Edinburgh. In this informative and stimulating
book. 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.
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