Princes Street page 7

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Art Centre
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273K 		The Art of Star Wars exhibition has been running here for some time. This is a view of the building as seen from the roof of Princes Mall, across the top of Waverley Station. The two panels picturing the robot are each three storeys high.
Art Centre 1
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219K 		The second picture is zoomed back to reveal the Scotsman building which has been converted to a hotel following The Scotsman newspaper's relocation to Holyrood Road. The hotel retains the name, unlike the nearby Balmoral Hotel which was formerly the North British Hotel.
Art Centre 3
City Art Centre
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272K		 A closer look at the City Art Centre taken from across Market Street, near the entrance to Waverley Station shown in the next picture.
North Bridge 54
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298K		 The old Market Street entrance to Waverley Railway Station is on the right. Beyond is North Bridge and the Balmoral Hotel. In the foreground, the grey rectangular box is a lift for conveying passengers to the platform below.

Craig's Close
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210K

The other 2 pictures were taken earlier and are here after I searched my archives for confirmation that the first one was, indeed, a picture of Craig's Close. Picture number 2 is 558 x 864, 76K and the third one is 328 x 600, 43K taken in 1998.
Waverley Bridge
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339K 		Also taken from the roof of Princes Mall (previously Waveley Market) is this view of The Mound and Edinburgh Castle, behind the trees of Princes Street Gardens. In the foreground is Waverley Bridge where two vintage double decker buses are waiting for visitors to take a city tour.
Wet bus
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108K 		Unlike the buses pictured above, this one doesn't have an open top - just as well in view of the weather outside. This is Princes Street with South Charlotte Street on the right.
Multrees Walk
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180K 		The lane leading from the St James Centre to St Andrew Square, adjacent to the Harvey Nichols store. All the shops are still unoccupied, but nevertheless are cool and have style - according to the signs.
Equestrian Statue
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124K 		The Duke of Wellington points the way (roughly in the direction of Arthur's Seat) while the Balmoral Hotel towers overhead. The sky in this photograph has been 'enhanced' with a circular gradient fill.
Equestrian
Statue 2
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214K		 No post-processing in this second shot of the statue. Taken with a Pentax *ist digital camera with 10-17mm fisheye/wide zoom lens set to 14mm focal length, equivalent to about 20mm on a film-based 35mm SLR camera.
East End
1280 x 850
234K		 Photographed November 2009, a similar shot showing a wider view from a few steps back.
Waverley
Station r01
1152 x 864
349K 		A local train enters the tunnel under the Mound leading to East Princes Street Gardens. The National Gallery of Scotland sits astride the tunnel. Major construction work is under way there, largely hidden from view.
Café Royal
968 x 864
270K 		In West Register Street near the east end of Princes Street is this classic eating and drinking establishment. More info on this and other Edinburgh pubs from Night B4.
from Nelson
Monument (2)
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360K 		This picture and the next one have lots of detail. Consequently the files are quite large. Seen here are the shell of the old GPO building, the Balmoral Hotel, the castle rock, the Caledonian Hotel, Murrayfield rugby ground and the main railway west.

from Nelson
Monument (3)
1152 x 864
351K

Princes Street is 1.28 Kilometres or about 0.8 miles in length from Leith Street to the West End. In this shot the camera has been panned slightly to the right revealing the hotch-potch of rooves on the street's north side. Corstorphine Hill is in the background.

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