Sentences with word «wynds»

Written for eHarmony by Edinburgh Coffee Lovers There's something very romantic about the cobbled streets and wynds of Edinburgh, crammed with beautiful and ornate stone buildings
The history of Edinburgh is exemplified by the churches, tenements, residences, businesses and public buildings along the main thoroughfare and the intersecting closes (narrow alleys), wynds (alleys between buildings) and vennels (passages between houses).
One end is closed by the castle and the main artery The High Street (or the Royal Mile) leads away from it; minor streets (called closes or wynds) bud off the main spine in a herringbone pattern.
The exhibition's title is drawn from the 1858 publication, «Midnight scenes and social photographs: sketches of life in the streets, wynds, and dens of the city [of Glasgow]» by Alexander Brown, a letterpress printer in Glasgow, containing what he termed as «facts and observations» of the conditions of the poor, with photographs of the streets of Glasgow taken by moonlight.
The exhibition's title is drawn from the 1858 publication, «Midnight scenes and social photographs: sketches of life in the streets, wynds, and dens of the -LSB-.....]
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