Tour Scotland Video City Chambers Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the City Chambers on the Royal Mile on ancestry, history visit and trip to Edinburgh. This building was designed by John Adam. This building stands on the site of the old mansion house of the Provost of Edinburgh. The statue of Alexander and Bucephalus was designed by Sir John Steell. Steell was born in Aberdeen, but his family moved to 5 Calton Hill in Edinburgh in 1806. He was one of the thirteen children, eleven surviving beyond infancy, of John Steell senior, born 1779, died 1849, a carver and guilder, and Margaret Gourlay, the daughter of William Gourlay, a Dundee shipbuilder. As the family grew they moved to a larger house at 20 Calton Hill. Due to his father's own fame as a sculptor, for much of his early working career he is referred to as John Steel Junior.


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