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Opening doors to Scots history
IT IS one of the city’s best-known buildings, with a history stretching back more than 500 years.
It has been a stronghold in the old city walls and a home to one of Scotland’s most famous religious reformers as well as Mary Queen of Scots’ personal jeweller, James Mosman.
And the building, which housed many of Edinburgh’s early shops in the 1500s and was used as a trading centre until the Victorian era, has also survived attempts to knock it down – before eventually becoming the subject of one of the first conservation projects in Scotland’s history.
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