WHILE many of Edinburgh’s streets have been rendered unrecognisable by the pace of development in the city many facades, particularly in the Old Town, appear to be have changed little in over a century.
The Canongate is one such street in which many of the original buildings remain intact. All that has changed is those who frequent the bottom half of the Royal Mile.
Today the Canongate bustles with traffic and tourists but in 1897, as the picture above shows, you would be more likely to encounter hand-pulled carts and children playing.
Thanks to the Photoshop skills of David McLean at Lost Edinburgh we can get an idea of how life was back then to how it is today.
Image reproduced with permission from Capital Collections. To purchase this image visit www.capitalcollections.org.uk .