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Special Collections : Archival Resources

Coll-1167: Archives of the Patrick Geddes Centre for Planning Studies

The Photographs from the Survey of Edinburgh are part of a larger collection formerly held within the Outlook Tower on Castlehill. The collection as whole was catalogued while still at the Outlook Tower, this catalogue published as a 2-volume set Catalogue of the archives of the Patrick Geddes Centre for Planning Studies, the second volume focussed solely on the Edinburgh Survey photographs. It is this volume which has now been revisited, its contents keyed, with minor alterations, into a database, accessible below.

It is hoped to address the rest of the collection in due course. Meanwwhile a full digital copy of the first volume is available in pdf format (9MB file)

/1: Photographs from the Survey of Edinburgh


/AThe Castle and Castlehill
/BCastlehill and the Lawnmarket
/CHigh Street
/DFrom the High Street to the Cowgate
/EThe Cannongate
/FHolyrood
/GThe Vennel, Candlemaker Row
/HMain Point and Tollcross
/IJohnston Terrace and the Castle
/JThe Children's Garden at Johnston Terrace
/KThe Mound
/LWaverley
/MPrinces Street Gardens, the New Town and its Northern Edge
/NGardens in the New Town basement areas
/OViews of the 19th Century edges of the New Town
/PCalton Hill and eastern periphery of New Town
/QBristo
/RGeorge Square, Buccleuch Place and Chapel Street
/SCrosscauseway
/TThe Pleasance, Richmond Street, Salisbury Square
/UArthur's Seat
/VThe 19th Century outer suburbs
/WModels, maps, diagrams
/XThe Outlook Tower interior
/YChildhood and the environment