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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


/T: The Pleasance, Richmond Street, Salisbury Square


    /1St Leonard's School
    /2Pleasance Fork
    /3Inside east wall of Richmond Lane, near Fork
    /4West Richmond Street
    /5Outlook Tower gardener and neighbour
    /6Deaconess Hospital
    /7Deaconess Hospital
    /8Top end of Salisbury Square
    /9Salisbury Square
    /10North side of Salisbury Square
    /11Old Infirmary or Surgical Hospital
    /12unidentified
    /13Unidentified cottages (backs)