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The title on the original envelope containing the glass plate negative read "Crosscause", this presumably should have read "Waste Ground, Back of Crosscauseway". Handwritten title by R. Dykes.

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Probably read: St. Leonard's School, Girls' Entrance, Forbes Street. Handwritten title by R. Dykes.

Scope and Contents This site is a triangular open space opposite the present (1988) Deaconess Hospital which would be on the right beyond the edge of the picture. See print Coll-1167/B/26/20/6. This view is looking north. The hospital was re-used as Lothian Health Board Headquarters in March 1991. The triangular open space in this photograph is occupied by the rather elaborate public house. The sign over the door reads "G Kirk". The subsequent open space is apparently now to be built over again (1997)....

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South Richmond Street rear view. It is possible that this confined lane was enclosed beyond the area wall shown in these photographs. If so, it is certainly "near the Fork" which can still be distinguished in the present (1988) open space. Handwritten title by Alasdair Geddes.

Scope and Contents This street still leads, at right angles, from Nicolson Street to the Pleasance. Richmond Lane runs north west from the Fork, corsses West Richmond Street and becomes Richmond Place (which leads through Roxburgh Place to Drummond Street). The whole area has been almost wholly rebuilt since clearnce began about 1930. Handwritten title by Alasdair Geddes. A print of this glass plate negative was exhibited in the "Squalor and Romance" section of Geddes' replacement "Cities and Town Planning...

Scope and Contents The back of the present (1989) Deaconess Hospital is visible at the far end of the back greens, (the front is the Pleasance, see Coll-1167/B/26/20/2). This building, now much altered and extended, dates from from 1894. Carnegie Street not visible was on the left. Brown Street, of which the back is shown here, on the right. The square roofed extension at the left back of the hospital can still be identified though a story has been added. The three-storey separate building on the left no...

Scope and Contents Originally described as "Portman Sq" but crossed out. By 1927 Waldie's Diary (no. 12) had become McClelland; the shop to the left (i.e the readers' left, no. 125) had become The Park Cafe, no. 127 a newsagent and no. 129 (boot repairing shop) a confectioner. The continuation southwards (left) of these low buildings may be seen in image Coll-1167/B/26/20/2 (mid right). The scene in the next image in the series Coll-1167/B/26/20/9 must be behind and to the right of the photographer of this...

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Salisbury Street from Brown. Salisbury Square is said to be at the right end of the picture. See previous image Coll-1167/B/26/20/8, for the scene on the left of the photographer of this one, Coll-1167/B/26/20/9. The Ordnance Survey Map shows gardens at this point. "Salisbury Street" is marked on it, but not "Salisbury Square". View looking north east. Demolished mid-twentieth century. Handwritten title by R. Dykes.

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This must refer to the Old Infirmary or Surgical Hospital between Drummond Street and High School Yards, now part of the University of Edinburgh. The City Wall in the Pleasance is still in existence. The exact site of this picture has not been identified. Handwritten title by Alasdair Geddes. A print of this glass plate negative was exhibited in the "Squalor and Romance" section of Geddes' replacement "Cities and Town Planning Exhibition".

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Note the corrugated iron face, and a road, with setts in the foreground. It is possible that the tenements in the background were adjacent to Holyrood Park known in Geddes' time as the Queen's, and later the King's Park.