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Hidden beneath the South Bridge in the heart of Edinburgh's Old Town, the Blair Street Underground Vaults are a series of stone chambers built into the arches of the bridge in the late eighteenth century, now opened to visitors as one of the city's most atmospheric historic attractions. When the bridge was completed in the 1780s to carry a road across a valley, the spaces within its nineteen great arches were enclosed to create vaults intended for storage and for workshops serving the businesses...