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
/R: George Square, Buccleuch Place and Chapel Street
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| Full reference code | Coll-1167/1/R/7 |
| Title | Buccleuch Place, north back |
| Original title | DEACONESS SCHOOL (mistaken title, in fact north back of Buccleugh (sic) Place) |
| Date | c1904-1910 |
| Creator | Sir Patrick Geddes |
| Scope and content | Identified as the north side of Buccleuch Place, in part the site of the David Hume Tower. The school may have been the building on the left. |
| Author of original title | Alasdair Geddes |
| Negative number | Green Box 120 |
| Note | The original title may be wrong, as some negatives were placed in the wrong envelopes. The old Buccleuch Parish School, which still stands (1989), is to the west of Hope Park Square - which also adds to the confusion. |
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