Netherbow Hotel - Moubray House, John Knox House, Edinburgh

Notes: John Knox House shown on the right, popularly known as John Knox's House, is a historic house in Edinburgh, Scotland, reputed to have been owned and lived in by Protestant reformer John Knox during the 16th century.

The Netherbow Temperance Hotel shown here, is located in the Moubray House, 51 and 53 High Street, is one of the oldest buildings on the Royal Mile, and one of the oldest occupied residential buildings in Edinburgh, Scotland. The façade dates from the early 17th century, built on foundations laid c. 1477.

"D. McLeod Netherbow Temperance Hotel & Lodgings"

"Fish & Tripe Suppers, Chipped Potatoes & Fried Fish 2d."

"Mackay Fancy Turner"

"Knox's China Warehouse" has a selection of Staffordshire figures in the shop window - a pair of dogs and two figures on horseback, also sells Paraffin Oil.

On the pavement in front of the property is the Netherbow Well, one of the wells which formerly supplied water for the Old Town.

Format: dry plate, glass negative 4 ¼” x 3 ¼” (108 mm x 82 mm) Horace Hodgkinson

Date Range: c1885, very approximate. Horace was born in Thame, Oxfordshire in 1862 and married in Sydney in 1887 (age 24), no intervening immigration records have been located. An 1871 census record shows him living in Oxfordshire, age 8, son of Isaac, a chairmaker and Martha.

Location: Edinburgh

Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons

Terms of use: please acknowledge - Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies Collection

Repository: Blue Mountains Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au

Part of Local Studies Collection: HO 70.8073 Box 70

Provenance: Horace Edward Hodgkinson (1862-1937), Charles Edward Hodgkinson (1890-1979), Shayne Cullen (née Hodgkinson)

Links:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knox_House
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moubray_House
www.scottishstorytellingcentre.com/john-knox-house/histor...

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Taken in: UK / Scotland / Edinburgh (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 1885

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Sets appears in: • The Hodgkinson Collection • Glass Negatives

Groups appears in: • Edinburgh • Glass Negatives more » • Vintage Photographs (pre-1945) [Directory] • Vintage Black and White photographs • Old Edinburgh • Everything Edinburgh - Past & Present • Black and White Edinburgh • Old Scotland - 19th and 20th century photographs « less

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