Their father, William Walker, bought the Coates estate from the Byres family around 1800 and is remembered in the street names William Street and Walker Street.The Closes and Wynds of the Old Town: Old Edinburgh Club.
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Tradesmen and professionals shared the same buildings. > In the flats of the lofty houses in wynds or facing the High Street the > populace dwelt, who reached their various lodgings by the steep and narrow > 'scale' staircases [stair-towers] which were really upright streets.
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Originally, a close was private property, hence gated and closed to the public. A wynd is typically a narrow lane between houses, an open throughway, usually wide enough for a horse and cart. The word derives from Old Norse venda, implying a turning off a main street, without implying that it is curved. In fact, most wynds are straight.
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The Royal Mile runs downhill and terminates at Holyrood Palace. Minor streets (called closes or wynds) lie on either side of the main spine forming a herringbone pattern. The street has several fine public buildings such as St Giles' Cathedral, the City Chambers and the Law Courts. Other places of historical interest nearby are Greyfriars Kirkyard and the Grassmarket.
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Tolbooth Wynd, Edinburgh, Scotland In Scotland and Northern Ireland the Scots terms close, wynd, pend and vennel are general in most towns and cities. The term close has an unvoiced "s" as in sad. The Scottish author Ian Rankin's novel Fleshmarket Close was retitled Fleshmarket Alley for the American market. Close is the generic Scots term for alleyways, although they may be individually named closes, entries, courts and wynds.
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Paintings of the Malvern Hills include Henry Harris Lines's The British Camp and Herefordshire Beacon (1872), now in the Worcester City Museums. David Prentice, founder member of Birmingham's Ikon Gallery, has been painting the Malvern Hills since 1986. Paul Nash made paintings of the hills from 'Madams' in Gloucestershire and from the 'Rising Sun' hotel on Cleeve Hill near Cheltenham. Dame Laura Knight painted in a studio near Wynds Point below British Camp.
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He produced twenty six prints that are now an important historic record of this area. Unlike the haunting work by Glasgow photographer Thomas Annan for that city's Improvement Trust, Burns' photographs of Edinburgh's closes and wynds record the area as ruined and half-destroyed buildings without any residents present. Despite both working out of Rock House in 1870–71, it is not certain whether or not Burns saw Annan's photographs of Old Glasgow.
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In 1615 John Byres the city Treasurer built a new house called Coates Hall to the west of the city. The house had a truly huge estate, stretching to St Cuthbert's Church.The Closes and Wynds of Edinburgh: The Old Edinburgh Club Around 1800 the estate was bought by William Walker who began developing the east section of the estate, adjacent to the then newly built New Town. This included William Street and Walker Street, named after himself.
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Some of the guards almost discovered the disguise at the last minute, but were successfully distracted, and at the gate Argyll stepped up behind the coach. On reaching the custom-house he slipped quietly off, into one of the narrow wynds adjacent. He first went to the house of George Pringle of Torwoodlee, who had arranged for the escape, and by him was conducted to William Veitch, in Northumberland, who in turn brought him, travelling under the name "Mr. Hope", to London.
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By the sixteenth century perhaps ten per cent of the population lived in one of the many burghs.E. Gemmill and N. J. Mayhew, Changing Values in Medieval Scotland: a Study of Prices, Money, and Weights and Measures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), , pp. 8–10. A characteristic of Scottish burghs were long main streets of tall buildings, with vennels, wynds and alleys leading off it, many of which survive today.R. Mitchison, Lordship to Patronage, Scotland 1603–1745 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1983), , pp. 99–100.
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A bust of Sir Barry Jackson now stands in the Birmingham REP. Letters written by Sir Barry Jackson and other materials are held at the University of Birmingham Special Collections and at Birmingham Central Library Archives. There is a tower block named in his honour – Barry Jackson Tower in Aston, Birmingham. There is a commemorative plaque to Barry Jackson, set into a rock at Wynds Point, which is near British Camp in the Malvern Hills Jackson donated artworks to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
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ODNB: Rev Robert Buchanan In 1833 he moved to the Tron Kirk in Glasgow. He then lived at 2 Richmond Street.Glasgow Post Office Directory 1835 Working from the base created by his predecessor, Rev Dr Thomas Chalmers he did much "home mission" work in Glasgow and expanded the church into the poorer areas such as "The Wynds" of old Glasgow. . In 1838 it was Buchanan who chaired the debate on the "Auchterarder question", regarding the ability of a congregation to refuse a minister proposed by the local patron.
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Byer's tenement and bank (left) facing onto the Tolbooth Prison and St Giles Coates House, Edinburgh The grave of John Byres of Coates, Greyfriars Kirkyard Symbolic carvings on the tomb of John Byres of Coates, Greyfriars Kirkyard Sir John Byres of Coates (1569-1629) was a 16th/17th century Scottish banker and merchant who served as Treasurer and Old Provost for Edinburgh Town Council. Old Provost is the equivaleny of Deputy Provost. Byers Close on the Royal Mile is named after him.The Closes and Wynds of Edinburgh: The Old Edinburgh Club.
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Archibald Burns promoted himself as a landscape photographer and sold individual prints, stereographs, cabinet cards, and magic lantern slides of views of Edinburgh and surrounding area. Burns illustrated two books on Edinburgh published in 1868, three years before he took his series of photographs of closes and wynds for the Edinburgh Improvement Trust (January and February 1871). The text in Picturesque "Bits" from Old Edinburgh (1st ed. 1868) emphasizes the architectural history of Scotland and the importance of photography in preserving the knowledge of fading vernacular styles and ends with a questions regarding the future of Scottish architecture.
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In many places wynds link streets at different heights and thus are mostly thought of as being ways up or down hills. A pend is a passageway that passes through a building, often from a street through to a courtyard, and typically designed for vehicular rather than exclusively pedestrian access. A pend is distinct from a vennel or a close, as it has rooms directly above it, whereas vennels and closes are not covered over. A vennel is a passageway between the gables of two buildings which can in effect be a minor street in Scotland and the north east of England, particularly in the old centre of Durham.
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In contrast, many Lowland cottages had distinct rooms and chambers, were clad with plaster or paint and even had glazed windows. Perhaps ten per cent of the population lived in one of many burghs that had grown up in the later Medieval period, mainly in the east and south of the country.E. Gemmill and N. J. Mayhew, Changing Values in Medieval Scotland: a Study of Prices, Money, and Weights and Measures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), , pp. 8–10. A characteristic of Scottish burghs was a long main street of tall buildings, with vennels, wynds and alleys leading off it, many of which survive today.R. Mitchison, Lordship to Patronage, Scotland 1603–1745 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1983), , pp. 99–100.
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