Reading Simon's post about writers' houses prompted me to snap these local landmarks. Yards from my front door is Robert Louis Stevenson's birthplace (see above and below). He spent the first three years of his life there (have a look at this picture - the poor laddie!).
Not far away, is Thomas Carlyle's house. He lived there from 1826 to 1828
And if you go back to RLS's street and turn the corner into this crescent,
you can see the house in which Chopin stayed on the occasion of his Edinburgh concert in October 1848.
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Posted by: Juxtabook | 06 June 2008 at 02:23 PM
Re: the RLS photo. We knew that little boys were dressed in girls' clothing back then. But the hat!
Posted by: Fay Sheco | 06 June 2008 at 02:39 PM
Track down a copy of Trevor Royle's Precipitous City: The Story of Literary Edinburgh, if you don't have one already - you'll love it.
Posted by: Kelly | 06 June 2008 at 03:29 PM
These are wonderful shots Karen! Thanks for sharing them. I love seeing what your neighborhood is like.
Posted by: tara | 07 June 2008 at 12:47 AM
Gosh, crowded by fame!
I'm a little ashamed to say that RLS will always, to me, mean 'R. L. Stine', writer of the Goosebumps series which transfixed me when I was about 10.
Posted by: Simon T | 09 June 2008 at 10:11 PM
Karen, without naming the street, is that house the one with the red door in a set of fine Georgian terraces? There is a gated private park in the middle of the road? I took a photo of that house and while I was doing so, a wee girl looking more like Alice in Wonderland looked out of the window and kindly waved to me.
Posted by: Tui M. | 31 July 2008 at 09:43 PM
p.s. Still trying to find the Perth photos again...perhaps a Scotland link in your menu, for non-Edinburgh photos?
Posted by: TM | 31 July 2008 at 09:46 PM