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North British Station Hotel, Waverley Station, c 1890-c 1910

 Item — Box: Box 2 of 7
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/26/12/8

Scope and Contents

North British Hotel, former General Post Office building, Nelson Monument and also part of the old Jail (not visible in Coll-1167/B/26/12/7), as well as North Bridge with a tram. In both Coll-1167/B/26/12/7-8, note the Register House on the extreme left. Also, Waverley Market Hall - low building rising above glass roof of station. This was a large and fundamentally empty hall, used for shows of all kinds, circuses and sometimes dramatic entertainment. At certain times, there were flower beds on the flat roof. Its interior was quite unlike its successor, Waverly Market, which dates from 1984/1985 and consists of shopping malls at different levels. Handwritten title by Alasdair Geddes.

Dates

  • Creation: c 1890-c 1910

Creator

Language of Materials

From the Fonds:

English

French

Hebrew

Latin

Dutch

Flemish

Full Extent

1 glass plate negative ; 4 1/4" x 3 1/4"

Related Materials

Coll-1167/B/16; Coll-1167/B/26/12/9; Coll-1167/B/27/12/8-9

Stock Check (2016-2020)

Located 2017

Previous reference

PSE/L/8; A2.110

Processing Information

The printed legacy catalogue the "Papers of Sir Professor Patrick Geddes" (1998) lists this item in both the Papers (Vol I) of the catalogue, and the Photographs (Vol II). In general (with occasional exceptions) the listing in the Papers (Vol I) does not refer to a physical item but refers to the use of a print from the negatives in a particular section of the "Cities and Town Planning" exhibition. In this new online catalogue (2020), to avoid duplicate listings and to mitigate confusion, these glass plate negatives and the related prints each are only listed once in the "Photographs for the Survey of Edinburgh" series (Coll-1167/B/26 - glass plate negatives; Coll-1167/B/27 photographic prints). Cross-references are documented in the catalogue descriptions where necessary.

Repository Details

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