The The Tailors' Hall

The Tailors' Hall has also witnessed important national and civic events, such as the preliminaries to the signing, in 1638, of the National Covenant; besides housing, as its many mottoes relate, "the Companie of the Tailzeours within this good town," it was for a time "the refuge of the Scottish drama."

The Scottish Banks and the Scottish Courts - which still hang over it - had their accesses to the Cowgate by the "Parliament stairs."

The Carnegie Public Library, standing on ground once covered by the mansion of the famous jurist, Sir Thomas Hope, rises from its pavement.

The great Hospital, founded by "Jinglin' Geordie," is, however, as stately, and more venerable and, like the neighbouring Infirmary and Medical School, more precious and manifold in public service than in its earlier days; George Square, Scott's home as boy and young man, has gained as much charm as it has lost; while beyond it, in the hollow once filled by the Borough Loch, are the free spaces and the shadowed walks of the Meadows.

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