5 Duke Street

The National Vigilance Association paid 45 pounds for the building here, and moved in on October 20th, 1914. Now known as 5 Dublin Street, having been renamed when postcodes were introduced in the late 1960s, to avoid duplication with Leith’s Duke Street.¹

1. The thread about the early Penny Postal service and street directories of Edinburgh and the numbering and naming; re-numbering and re-naming of some streets – Threadinburgh