The Edinburgh Festival in full swing and The Royal Mile is bustling.

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Designed by Robert Rowand Anderson and built in 1897, the McEwan Hall is a D-shaped hall with two semicircular galleries served by intertwining spiral stairs, one entered from outside and the other from inside the hall. This double helix stair concept is considered to be unique in Scotland.

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Owned by The University of Edinburgh, but used as a festival venue here. It is the oldest purpose built Student Union Building in the world, having been opened on 19th October, 1889. Designed by the renowned Edinburgh practice Sydney Mitchel and Wilson with notes of the Scots Baronial and Holyrood Palace drum towers.

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Another University of Edinburgh building in Bristo Square, this one houses the student union and a debating hall.

Architect was Sydney Mitchell and Wilson, 1887-1888. It was built on the site of Lord Ross's house, built c.1740, which later became a lying-in hospital from 1793 to 1842.

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Crowds gather to watch a street performer at the festival. High Kirk of Edinburgh makes a nice background.

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