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Bannerman's Bar Cowgate - beneath South Bridge |
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs - please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photograph taken: September 13, 2007
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Bannerman's Bar |
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Bannerman's Bar is named after Julian Charles Bannerman who bought the premises in 1979. It is situated on the corner of Niddry Street and Cowgate, beneath South Bridge. It is a popular venue for live music. It has a maze of tunnels and alcoves, and was once a vintner's cellar. This photograph was taken in the late afternoon. A few hours later, the bar and street would have been busy. |
It would be interesting to discover how long the 'Flat for Sale' advert has been in the first floor window. |
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Recollections Flat above Bannerman's Bar |
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Thank you to Patrick Hutton who wrote: |
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"This picture above reminds me that I tried to buy the flat two floors up from Bannerman's Bar, more than 20 years ago. It was a beautiful place, with raised bed platform and 4-poster in the master bedroom. My friend, who had been brought up in Karachi, said that the stair reminded her of a slum out there! I couldn't buy it because the surveyors said that there had been serious settlement not so many years before in Bannerman's (specifically, in the vaults under South Bridge, as I recall), and I couldn't get a mortgage. The then owner (student, English) said that Daddy had paid cash." Patrick Hutton, New Town, Edinburgh: September 25, 2007 |