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Portobello Grammar School Pupil Standing In Front Of The ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ House At 8-10 The Causeway In Duddingston Village 1957

1957
Portobello Grammar School Pupil Standing In Front Of The 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' House At 8-10 The Causeway In Duddingston Village 1957

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Rona Little (née MacDonald) aged 14.

Photograph taken by Rona’s father, Thomas Adam Fyfe MacDonald.

The building has since been restored and bears a plaque reading “In this house on 19th September 1745 Prince Charles Edward Stuart held his council of war before the Battle of Prestonpans.”

Donor number: 0505-002

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