Out and About

By Puffin

Auld Reekie is not all grey

These white houses stand out from the typical grey Edinburgh architecture. Spied from the top of the airport bus when the sky was a vivid blue.
By the time I had run my errands and returned to the spot the clouds had rolled in. I am insufficiently practiced with digital jiggery pokery to copy the sky from a photo I took in the Meadows in the morning when the sky was blue to this one, so it will have to stay au naturel.

Internet searching reveals these houses as Ramsay Garden; a combination of Scots baronial and English cottage styles, with turrets, towers and balconies, half-timbered gable and carved doors. Many features are as recent as the 1890s. Additions and alterations were conceived by the Edinburgh University professor Sir Patrick Geddes. They were built in 1892-93 to tempt lecturers and professors to move back, with Patrick Geddes, into the Old Town of Edinburgh.

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