Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Edinburgh HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear Yes DisabledAccess No Activities http://www.cockburnassociation.org.uk/ OpeningTime1 10:00 - 16:00 OpeningDate1 28/9/2019 OpeningDate2 29/9/2019 OpeningTime2 10:00 - 16:00 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 9196 Refreshments No Street The street address Trunk's Close AddressLine2 55 High Street Postcode EH1 1SR Parking No DisabledWC No LimitedAccess Yes NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cockburn Association Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived edinburgh Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1553 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.95082,-3.185258; Description An account of the resource Next to John Knox House is Moubray House. Although the frontage dates from c. 1630, the house was originally built around 1477, by Robert Moubray. ˜Andrew Moubray built a new house at the rear in 1529. It was restored by the Cockburn Society in 1910. Here Daniel Defoe edited the Edinburgh Courant (1710) and the shop was the premises of publisher Archibald Constable (1774-1827). Outside on the street is one of the wells which used to provide the water supply to the Old Town. ˜The office of the Cockburn Association is located in the old cellars of Moubray House and accessed from the garden at the back of the building. Limited wheelchair access to the garden only, down a steep close. ˜Come and find out about the Cockburn Association's work for the past 142 years in the conservation and enhancement of Edinburgh?s landscape and historic and architectural heritage.