hiya I helped transcribed the 1841 census and Rose st was part of the area I did. There were certainly lots of brothel keepers and prostitutes in 1841. I live in edinburgh and have never known Rose St to be the red light area in the 70s. A couple of streets down from Rose St, Danube St, was were the prostitutes hung out but that area has changed now and they are nearer to Leith. not sure when rose St became 'respectable' but I would have classed it as red light in 1841 time<html><DIV><FONT face="Lucida Handwriting, Cursive" color=#660099>June <IMG height=12 src="http://graphics.hotmail.com/emsmile.gif" width=12></FONT></DIV></html> > From: [email protected]> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:42:47 -0500> To: [email protected]> Subject: Re: [SCT-EDINBURGH] 1851 street map of Edinburh> > Thank you Chris for that information. I will try the website.> > I have heard that Rose street was at one time a red light district. Do> you know enough about Edinburgh to know at what point in history this> occurred?> regards......kathleen> > > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d
Interesting , I have just checked a sample of Rose Street 1841 Census (No's 130/150) and can find no mention of Brothel/Prostitute .. Lodging House yes which could I suppose be another name. Can you give me house numbers of the establishments you have found.as I am carrying out work , on Rose Street, for a friend who is researching a social history of the New Town At that time there certainly were Mr Hall's Brothel in George Street , Mrs Scott's in North Castle Street and at least one hotel in St Andrew's Square known for its "ladies" " A couple of streets down from Rose St, Danube St, was were the prostitutes hung out but that area has changed now and they are nearer to Leith. " There was one house operated by the infamous Mrs Noyce - no women "hung out in the street" Nearer to Leith - which means ? TIA Regards John John D. Stevenson Edinburgh [email protected] June Duncan wrote: > hiya > > I helped transcribed the 1841 census and Rose st was part of the > area I did. There were certainly lots of brothel keepers and > prostitutes in 1841. I live in edinburgh and have never known Rose > St to be the red light area in the 70s. A couple of streets down > from Rose St, Danube St, was were the prostitutes hung out but that > area has changed now and they are nearer to Leith. > > not sure when rose St became 'respectable' but I would have classed > it as red light in 1841 time<html><DIV><FONT face="Lucida > Handwriting, Cursive" color=#660099>June <IMG height=12 > src="http://graphics.hotmail.com/emsmile.gif" > width=12></FONT></DIV></html> > > > >> From: [email protected]> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:42:47 -0500> To: >> [email protected]> Subject: Re: [SCT-EDINBURGH] 1851 street >> map of Edinburh> > Thank you Chris for that information. I will try >> the website.> > I have heard that Rose street was at one time a red >> light district. Do> you know enough about Edinburgh to know at what >> point in history this> occurred?> regards......kathleen> > > >> -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, >> please send an email to [email protected] with the >> word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of >> the message > _________________________________________________________________ > Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. > http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:20:57 +0000, you wrote: >hiya > >I helped transcribed the 1841 census and Rose st was part of the area I did. There were certainly lots of brothel keepers and prostitutes in 1841. I live in edinburgh and have never known Rose St to be the red light area in the 70s. A couple of streets down from Rose St, Danube St, was were the prostitutes hung out but that area has changed now and they are nearer to Leith. In Danube Street there was a notorious brothel I had a friend who lived opposite it in the 1960's. Apparently on Sunday mornings a queue would form outside consisting mostly of waiters from the Chinese restaurants. David