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
/B: Castlehill and the Lawnmarket
/5
| Full reference code | Coll-1167/1/B/5 |
| Title | Free Church College Garden Court |
| Original title | Free Church College Garden Court before design (looking East) |
| Date | c1904-1910 |
| Creator | Sir Patrick Geddes |
| Scope and content | View of Free Church College from Garden. This view may be seen from Ramsay Lane. The Free Church College held the ownership of this building from the time of its construction (1844-50) until 1900, and from 1905 to 1907 when it was transferred to the United Free Church, and, after the Union of Churches in 1929, to the Church of Scotland. It now also houses the Faculty of Divinity of Edinburgh University. In 1907, the Free Church moved their headquarters to the present (1988) Free Church College further along The Mound. |
| Author of original title | Alasdair Geddes |
| Negative number | Box 7, 3 |
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