Old Photograph Seafield Terrace Blackhall Scotland

Old photograph of shops, and houses and people on Seafield Terrace in Blackhall a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. The " Black " in the placename could derive either from the Anglian blaec or Scots blac meaning simply black, and the "hall " ending is from the Anglian halh or Scots haugh meaning land beside or in the bend of a river. John Horne, born 1 January 1848, died 30 May 1928, was a Scottish geologist. He served as President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1915 to 1919. In later life he lived at 12 Keith Crescent in Blackhall, Edinburgh.



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