John Center

Photographer and Bagpipe Maker

Edinburgh Addresses

Year Trade

P=Photographer

B=Bagpipe Maker

Business Address Home Address

1865

P?

 

Haymarket Station  -  July 2003 ©

_  Haymarket

161 Morrison Street  -  One of the business addresses of the Edinburgh Photofessional Photographer and Bagpipe maker, John Center. ©

161 Morrison Street

When?

 

1866-67

P

37 North Pitt Street

1868

P

Haymarket Station  -  July 2003 ©_  Haymarket

1869

P B

Haymarket Station  -  July 2003 ©_  Haymarket

1870

P B

5  Haymarket

West End Portrait Rooms

1871-72

P B

18 Morrison Street

West End Portrait Rooms

1873-80

P B

Junction of Grove Street and Morrison Street.  The shop on the corner is No 1 Grove Street©

1 Grove Street

Junction of Grove Street and Morrison Street.  The shop on the corner is No 1 Grove Street©

3 Grove Street

1881-85

  B

3a Grove Place

Junction of Grove Street and Morrison Street.  The shop on the corner is No 1 Grove Street©

3 Grove Street

1886-88

B

161 Morrison Street  -  One of the business addresses of the Edinburgh Photofessional Photographer and Bagpipe maker, John Center. ©

161 Morrison Street

Junction of Grove Street and Morrison Street.  The shop on the corner is No 1 Grove Street©

3 Grove Street

1889-92

B

Junction of Grove Street and Morrison Street.  The shop on the corner is No 1 Grove Street©

1 Grove Street
again!

Junction of Grove Street and Morrison Street.  The shop on the corner is No 1 Grove Street©

3 Grove Street

1893-95

B

Junction of Grove Street and Morrison Street.  The shop on the corner is No 1 Grove Street©

1 Grove Street

20 Angle Park Terrace  -  Home of the Edinburgh Professional Photographer and Bagpipe Maker ©

 20 Angle Park Terrace

1896-07

  B

64 Grove Street.  At one time this was the business address of the Edinburgh Professional Photographer and Bagpipe Maker, John Center. ©

64 Grove Street
See Note below

20 Angle Park Terrace

 

John Center

Notes on Edinburgh Addresses

1.  The North Pitt Street  address is a short distance to the north of Princes Street.  All other addresses are to the west of the City Centre

2.  I have eight cartes de visite by John Center in my collection.  Five of these are from his first studio, 37 North Pitt Street.

3.  The home at 3 Grove Street was described as having three rooms with windows  [1881 Census]

4.  The address, 64 Grove Street, was the address of a Bagpipe and Reed Manufacture  business being run by John Center and his brother, William, in 1901.  William died in November 1901.

[Letter written in 1901:  Veronika Ihlenfeldt]

 

 

John Center and the Senter Family

Most of the family were named Senter. John used the name Center.

George was Center (marriage records), but Centre (christening records).

Family

John Center                    Jane                     Willie and Amy

Family Tree                   Leaving Scotland                   Today

Addresses

John (Aberdeen)         John (Edinburgh)          Family (Edinburgh)

Cartes de Visite

John Center                  By John Center:   1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8

Bagpipes

Bagpipe Maker                        Bagpipe Photographs

 

 

 

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