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
/V: The 19th Century outer suburbs
/12
| Full reference code | Coll-1167/1/V/12 |
| Title | Gorgie Garden Village |
| Original title | Gorgie Garden Village |
| Date | c1904-1910 |
| Creator | Sir Patrick Geddes |
| Scope and content | A small garden village at Gorgie was "erected 1895, by the late Mr Cox, per Outlook Tower. S. H. Capper, Architect." |
| Author of original title | |
| Negative number | Green Box 12 |
| Note | Quoted in the list of exhibits in the 'Outline of a Survey of Edinburgh' in the 1910 Exhibition. |
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