Anchor Close Sign and Old Lamp, Edinburgh
by Yvonne Johnstone
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Anchor Close Sign and Old Lamp, Edinburgh
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Yvonne Johnstone
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Photograph - Photography
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Dating from 1521 Anchor Close was named after a tavern that was at the top of the close in 1714. The Close ran from the High Street to Market Street before Cockburn Street was built and dissected it. In 1718 it change Landlords to and 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. The parents of Sir Walter Scott resided here until 1771.
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