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
/T: The Pleasance, Richmond Street, Salisbury Square
/5
| Full reference code | Coll-1167/1/T/5 |
| Title | Outlook Tower gardener and neighbour |
| Original title | Ethylotragedy Arithocomedy (OT garden & neighbour) |
| Date | c1904-1910 |
| Creator | Sir Patrick Geddes |
| Scope and content | Richmond Place. Richmond Cycle Depot is shown on the sign in the picture; this shop was given in a PO Directory as 3 Richmond Place. This is probably the building shown in the 'Edinburgh Improvement Survey 1927'; St Leonards Section, Area F, Ref. 33 Richmond Place 1, 3a, 3 (Edinburgh Room, City Library). |
| Author of original title | Alasdair Geddes |
| Negative number | Green Box 133 |
| Note | The slide is broken and incomplete. The original title - a tragedy for ethyl (a sad state for the chemical or for the alcohol) and a comedy in numbers (at least four bits of glass) illustrates the writer's sense of humour; he means the glass slide has been broken! See Philip Mairel's biography 'Pioneer of Sociology' (Lund Humphries, 1957), Chapter XII, pp. 125-126. The author of the title was identified as Alasdair Geddes. |
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