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Queen Street - night 1
By the 18th century the people of Edinburgh began to feel more secure and it was decided to build a new town outside the original walls. The competition for its design was won by a young Scottish architect, James Craig who put forward the simple grid design which survives today. It is based on three parallel streets, Queen Street, George Street and Princes Street. These streets represented money, power and status to those who had enough money to leave the over crowded Old Town for the New Town of Edinburgh, as it has become known they would have appreciated the wide streets, private gardens, formal rooms for socialising and space for kitchens and servants, as well as private toileting facilities! After the quashing of the Jacobite Rebellion, Scotland was desperate to prove it’s loyalty to the King (George lll) and what better way than to honour him through naming these new streets after him and his Queen?
Queen Street - night 1
By the 18th century the people of Edinburgh began to feel more secure and it was decided to build a new town outside the original walls. The competition for its design was won by a young Scottish architect, James Craig who put forward the simple grid design which survives today. It is based on three parallel streets, Queen Street, George Street and Princes Street. These streets represented money, power and status to those who had enough money to leave the over crowded Old Town for the New Town of Edinburgh, as it has become known they would have appreciated the wide streets, private gardens, formal rooms for socialising and space for kitchens and servants, as well as private toileting facilities! After the quashing of the Jacobite Rebellion, Scotland was desperate to prove it’s loyalty to the King (George lll) and what better way than to honour him through naming these new streets after him and his Queen?