University of Edinburgh University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Special Collections : Archival Resources

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


/D: From the High Street to the Cowgate


    /1Spikes
    /2Old Fishmarket Close
    /3Back of tenements, High Street
    /4Tron Square
    /5Tron Square
    /6Back of High Street Tenement
    /7Dangerous playground South Gray's Close
    /8St. Patrick's School playground, South Gray's Close
    /9South Gray's Close
    /10South Gray's Close