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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


/L: Waverley


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Full reference codeColl-1167/1/L/8
TitleNorth British Station Hotel, Waverley Station
Original titleWAVERLY (sic) from Parcel Office (No 1)
Datec1904-1910
CreatorSir Patrick Geddes
Scope and contentThe North British Station Hotel, former General Post Office building, with Nelson Monument beyond, and also part of the Old Jail. Register House is on the extreme left. North Bridge with a tram car, and Waverley Station in the foreground. The Waverley Market Hall, the low building rising above the glass roof of the station, was fundamentally an empty hall, but used for shows of all kinds, circuses and sometimes dramatic entertainments. Sometimes there were flower beds on the flat roof. Its interior was quite unlike its successor, the Waverley Market, which dates from 1984/85 and consists of shopping mall at different levels ('Buildings of Edinburgh', Gifford, McWilliam and Walker).
Author of original titleAlasdair Geddes
Negative numberGreen Box 16
NoteGreen Box 15 and 16 were in the same envelope. Prints Coll-1167/1/L/7 and Coll-1167/1/L/8 are almost identical. Note also that Prints Coll-1167/1/L/7 to Coll-1167/1/L/10 can be put together to form one view.
Related itemsColl-1167/1/L/7 Coll-1167/1/L/8 Coll-1167/1/L/7 Coll-1167/1/L/10