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
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| Full reference code | Coll-1167/1/E/8 |
| Title | Little Jack's Close, Canongate |
| Original title | Little Jack's Close, Canongate |
| Date | c1904-1910 |
| Creator | Sir Patrick Geddes |
| Scope and content | "Jack" seems to have been a slater, ('The Royal Mile', R.T. Skinner, 1920). This unprepossessing Close has associations with General Thomas Dalyell of the Binns; Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie); and David Hume, the philosopher. Note the Calton Jail in the background (ibid). North side of the Canongate. |
| Author of original title | Robert Dykes |
| Negative number | Green Box 111 |
| Note | See Coll-1167/1/E/8/a and Coll-1167/1/E/9. |
| Related items | Coll-1167/1/E/8/a Coll-1167/1/E/9 |