Stockbridge Market

This is the old entrance to the Stockbridge Market, just off St. Stephen Street, Edinburgh.  Todays market has moved to a new location but gladly, this old reminder still remains.  Stockbridge means 'timber bridge' and Stockbridge used to be an outlying area of Edinburgh, becoming part of the city in the 19th Century.  The current Stock Bridge spanning the Water of Leith was built in 1801.  The painter Henry Raeburn owned the two estates on the opposite sides - St Bernards and Deanhaugh.