Anchor Close from Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
by Yvonne Johnstone
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Anchor Close from Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
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Yvonne Johnstone
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Photograph - Digitally Enhanced Photograph
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View of Anchor Close looking up towards the High Street, Edinburgh.
Anchor Close was named after a tavern that was at the top of the close in 1714. The Close ran from the High Street down to Market Street before Cockburn Street was built and dissected it.
In 1718 the Tavern changed Landlords to Dawney Douglas’s Tavern which was a meeting place of the Crochallan Fencibles, a club with a membership of a number of the most distinguished men of the town.
The Crochallan Fencibles Club was founded by William Smellie, a printer who founded the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He also printed the first Edinburgh edition of Burns in 1787.
On the east side of the Close there are two 17th-century buildings, originally of four storeys.
A doorway on the west side of the Close, near the top, has a 17th-century inscription ”LORD BE MERCIFUL TO ME” and was the entrance to Dawney Douglas’s Tavern where the Crochallan Fencibles Club met.
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October 18th, 2020
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