2018

NH6645 : New housing - Raining's Stairs

taken 5 years ago, near to Inverness/Inbhir Nis, Highland, Scotland

New housing - Raining's Stairs
New housing - Raining's Stairs
John Raining 1659-1722 born in Dumfries left thousands of pounds 'to plant a school in any spot in North Britain', for the teaching of 'the fatherless and other poor children'. Inverness was chosen, and the original Raining's School was on Church Street. In 1757 it moved to a new Raining's School at the top of the stairs, which was later demolished in 1976.
This view from the top of the newly refurbished stairs looks down to Castle Street and the polythene wrapped Town House, which is under refurbishment

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Geographical Context: Lowlands Historic sites and artefacts Paths Housing, Dwellings City, Town centre Place: Inverness Primary Subject: Stairs other tags: Rainings Stairs Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Inverness [948] · Street [435] · Church [167] · Inverness Castle [156] · Looking [123] · Inverness Town House [31] Title Clusters: · New housing - Raining's Stairs [3] ·
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NH6645, 1218 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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valenta   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Wednesday, 31 October, 2018   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 4 November, 2018
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NH 6678 4518 [10m precision]
WGS84: 57:28.6342N 4:13.4001W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NH 66781 45188
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