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20 Princes Street EH2 2AN: Town or city: Edinburgh: Country: Scotland: Coordinates: Construction started: 1896: Completed: 1898: Opened: 1899 [1] Owner: Hotel Indigo: Technical details; Material: red Peterhead granite Sicilian marble stone from Prudham quarries, Northumberland [1] Design and construction
Princes Street (Scottish Gaelic: Sràid nam Prionnsachan) is one of the major thoroughfares in central Edinburgh, Scotland and the main shopping street in the capital. It is the southernmost street of Edinburgh's New Town , stretching around 1.2 km (three quarters of a mile) from Lothian Road in the west, to Leith Street in the east.
The larger West Princes Street Gardens cover 29 acres (12 ha) and extend to the adjacent churches of St. John's and St. Cuthbert's, near Lothian Road in the west. In 1846 the railway was built in the valley to connect the Edinburgh-Glasgow line at Haymarket with the new northern terminus of the North British line from Berwick-upon-Tweed at ...
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Designed in the early 1980s, the shopping centre was built with its roof at the street level of Princes Street, with a landscaped plaza at that level, in order to preserve the view from Princes Street across to Edinburgh Castle and the Old Town. It opened as Waverley Market in November 1984, the name referencing the food market that once ...
26-30 Princes Street and 3 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh 3 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh. Designed for RW Forsyth by the eminent practice of Burnet, Son and Dick, 1923-5. In 1906 he expanded the business with a second major store constructed on Princes Street, Edinburgh, opposite Waverley Station.
The Balmoral Hotel is a hotel and landmark in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located in the heart of the city at the east end of Princes Street, the main shopping street beneath the Edinburgh Castle rock, and the southern edge of the New Town. It is accessed from Princes Street, on its north side, and flanked by North Bridge and Waverley Steps.
The unusual family name of Romanes seems to have earlier been spelled as Romains, a merchant family of longstanding in Edinburgh. In 1810 James Romanes is listed as a "merchant" on the north side of Drummond Street in Edinburgh's South Side. [2] In 1815 he moved to larger and more prominent premises at 88 South Bridge. [3]