Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren No HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess Yes Activities <p class="p1">ACTIVITIES: guided tours.</p><p class="p1"><a href="http://www.grassmarket.org" target="_blank">www.grassmarket.org</a></p> OpeningTime1 10.00 - 16.00 OpeningDate1 24/9/2017 OpeningTime2 12.00 - 16.00 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 12996 Refreshments No Street The street address 86 Candlemaker Row Postcode EH1 2QA Parking No DisabledWC Yes LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Prim Media 3683 Address 96 Grassmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2JR Heritage Type Cultural Heritage Site 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 The Grassmarket Centre Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived edinburgh Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1909 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.948053,-3.194931; Description An account of the resource The Grassmarket area is first recorded in the fourteenth century, when it was referred to as ‘the street called Newbygging under the castle’. By the 1470s the area was known as ‘Westirmart’, and seems to have been associated with the sale of timber, hats, and shoes. At the far end of the Grassmarket stood the gateway known as the West Port, which was in existence by at least 1509, and formed the western boundary of the burgh.