Hawes Inn
by Yvonne Johnstone
Title
Hawes Inn
Artist
Yvonne Johnstone
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The Hawes Inn, South Queensferry, is a late 17th century Coaching Inn, with a date stone on the south east wall which says JS- 1638- BB, taken from the old house, Newhalls. The initials are thought to be the merchant John Smith, and his wife Bessie Bathgate.
During the eighteenth-century, the inn was used as a change house for stagecoaches using the Newhalls Ferry.
Robert Louis Stevenson, born in Edinburgh in 13th November 1850, is said to have been staying in room number 13 in 1886 when he came up with the idea of ‘Kidnapped’. He started writing the novel there and the Inn is indeed featured in the story. It is also mentioned in Sir Walter Scott's 'Antiquary' and again by Stevenson in 'Memories and Portraits'.
The Inn lies at the east end of Queensferry, almost under the Forth Rail Bridge. It is now part of the ‘Vintage Inns’ collection of pubs. The hotel area, ‘Innkeepers Lodge’ is next door to the pub/restaurant.
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February 28th, 2019
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