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
/E: The Cannongate
/6
| Full reference code | Coll-1167/1/E/6 |
| Title | New Street, off Canongate |
| Original title | New Street, off Canongait |
| Date | c1904-1910 |
| Creator | Sir Patrick Geddes |
| Scope and content | Calton Jail (site of St. Andrew's House) in the background. The site on the lower left right hand side of the street (not visible) was formerly occupied by a Bus Depot and, before that, by the Edinburgh Gas Works. The building on the immediate right is probably the house, or site of the house, of Lord Kames (see Chambers' 'Traditions of Edinburgh', Chapter on the Canongate, page 300, 1947 edition). North side of the Canongate. |
| Author of original title | Robert Dykes |
| Negative number | Green Box 83 |
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