(In tribute to my late friend George Macdonald RAF Regiment. Per Ardua). 5am Princes Street. 

(In tribute to my late friend George Macdonald RAF Regiment. Per Ardua)
Edinburgh’s famous Street “Princes Street” originally named St. Giles Street after the city’s patron saint, Saint Giles.
King George III, after consideration, rejected the name St. Giles Street as St Giles being the patron saint of lepers and also
the name of a slum area on the edge of the City of London. It was renamed Princes Street after his sons, the Princes.
Princes Street is approximately 2kms in length with shops on the north side and gardens on the south side of the street.
First House in Princes Street
The first house built in Princes Street was No 10 in 1769.
This was Silk Mercer (haberdasher) owner
Mr John Neale. Then Pooles Coffee House 1783,
then Archibald Constable purchased the house in 1822.
City Centre, Princes Street and Edinburgh Castle
Princes Street Gardens
Princes Street Gardens is a public park in the centre of Edinburgh in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle. Before the gardens were formed (West Gardens Laid 1816-20 and East Gardens Laid 1830), a Loch (Lake) surrounded the Castle Rock, separating the two Gardens West and East is the Mound (building started 1781) which was formed from earth and rubble when the new town was under construction, it became a connection between Old and New Edinburgh.