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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


/W: Models, maps, diagrams


    /1Edinburgh Old Town Perspective, Engraved by John Kay 1779
    /2Edinburgh Diagram showing extent in early 14th century
    /3Edinburgh Model from the south east
    /3aModel with roads drawn
    /4Bird's Eye view of Edinburgh from the south
    /5Plan showing the open spaces in the Old Town of Edinburgh
    /6Lines of Communication in and about Edinburgh
    /7Directory Map - Vacant Lands
    /8Bird's Eye view of the Forth
    /9Map - Forth and Lothians
    /10Map - Forth and Lothians
    /11Map - Forth and Lothians
    /12Map - Peeblesshire
    /13Forth and Clyde Canal
    /14Proposed route for a Clyde to Forth Canal via Loch Lomond