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Stockbridge is a district of Edinburgh, located north of the city centre, bounded by the New Town and by Comely Bank. The name is Scots stock brig from Anglic stocc brycg , meaning a timber bridge. Originally a small outlying village, it was incorporated into the City of Edinburgh in the 19th century.
Colony houses on Collins Place, Stockbridge. The colony houses of Edinburgh were built between 1850 and 1910 as homes for artisans and skilled working-class families by philanthropic model dwellings companies. The first development was the Pilrig Model Buildings, near Leith Walk. [1]
Stockbridge library. Stockbridge public library, built in 1898, is one of Edinburgh's 28 freely accessible libraries, [1] located in the Stockbridge area of the city.. The library is currently open six days a week and, in addition to the collection of books, provides "bookbug" sessions for the under-fives, a knitting club and acts as one of the city's business hubs [2]
At that time, the terrace at the western end of the road was the last row of houses in Edinburgh before the village of Blackhall. In 1894 the builder Sir James Steel bought the then empty 33-acre (13.5-hectare) site between Comely Bank and Queensferry Road and developed it as high density but high quality four storey tenements.
Edinburgh, showing Arthur's Seat, one of the earliest known sites of human habitation in the area. While the area around modern-day Edinburgh has been inhabited for thousands of years, [1] the history of Edinburgh as a definite settlement can be traced to the early Middle Ages when a hillfort was established in the area, most likely on the Castle Rock.
Raeburn was born the son of a manufacturer in Stockbridge, on the Water of Leith: a former village now within the city of Edinburgh. He had an older brother, born in 1744, called William Raeburn. His ancestors were believed to have been soldiers, and may have taken the name "Raeburn" from a hill farm in Annandale, held by Sir Walter Scott's family
The People's Story Museum is located in the historic Canongate Tolbooth, and features collections that narrate the story of the working-class people of Edinburgh from the late 18th century to the present day. [1] [2] The museum achieves this through the use of oral history, reminiscence, and written sources. [3]
Stockbridge public library, Edinburgh; Stockbridge Racecourse, a horse racing venue in Hampshire, England which closed in 1898; Stockbridge School, a "progressive" co-educational boarding school for adolescents near Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1948–1976; Stockbridge School of Agriculture, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst