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Cockburn Street Owl & Pussygryphon


59 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh EH1 1BS

Many people have walked up the steep winding road, some may have paused for breath outside no 59, but not many will have looked up and noticed the carved figures at the top of the building.


The few people that are aware of them, are puzzled as to why a carving of an owl and a pussycat appear on an building older than Lear's famous poem. The simple answer is...it's not a cat, it's a gryphon. Mystery solved.

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