General view over Well Court and Dean Village from a nearby hill

Date:
Apr 1889 - May 1889
Location:
Well Court, Dean Path, Edinburgh, Eh4
Reference:
BL09224
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
Not what you're looking for? Try a new search
How you can use our images.

Description

Possibly the view from the back of J R Findley's house in 3 Rothesay Terrace. J R Findley built Well Court, a social housing project containing apartments and a community hall for workers, as a philanthropic gesture. The design was meant to encourage the development of a close knit community as found in tenements in the city. It was designed by Sydney Mitchell. The site was overlooked by Findley's grand new town house in Rothesay Terrace and part of his reason for building Well Court seems to have been to improve his view of the then industrial Dean Village.

Archival History

Berkhampstead - Herts - Sayer Almshouses [written on card enclosed with neg].

Content

This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Lemere, Henry Bedford: Bedford Lemere And Company

Architect: Mitchell, Sydney

Client: Findley, John Ritchie

Keywords

Victorian Model Dwelling, Urban Landscape