Box Box 2 of 7
Contains 101 Results:
Potterrow, looking northwest, c 1890-c 1910
Bristo Place Church, c 1890-c 1910
Bristo Place Church, c 1890-c 1910
United Free Church off Marshall Street. See images Coll-1167/B/26/17/1 and 3. The buildings visible beyond the trees are probably the back of the south side of Lothian Street. Demolition took place between 1970-1980 during the University of Edinburgh developments. Handwritten title by R. Dykes. Old container: Green Box 38
University Students, Union, c 1890-c 1910
Charles Street, University Student's Union on right. Back of George Watson's Ladies' College (5 George Square, originally Admiral Duncan's House, in the mid-distance centre. The site of the tenement on the left was occupied by the University Pharmacology Building from 1968 (1998). Handwritten title by R. Dykes. A print from this glass plate negative was included in the "Higher Education Developments" section of Geddes' replacement "Cities and Town Planning Exibition". See Coll-1167/B/23
University Students' Union (back of), c 1890-c 1910
The Student's Union (back view) is on the right of the photograph. Behind it is Charles Street Lane, the north back of George Square. George Watson's Ladies College (back) on left, now the University department of Psychology. Note the original mews building in the left foreground. Handwritten title by R. Dykes.
George Square, East Mews, c 1890-c 1910
Possibly looking north towards Crichton Street with the east back of George Square on the left, in which case the lane is the same as that shown the next image in the series (Coll-1167/B/26/18/3) and the mews buildings a continuation of those shown there. The building at the end of the lane shown above is not the same as that shown in Coll-1167/B/26/18/4 which is one story lower. Demolished 1960. Handwritten title by R. Dykes.
George Square, East Mews (looking south), c 1890-c 1910
Lane behind the east side of George Square, looking south towards Buccleugh Place. The lane was demolished c. 1960-1970, but a few of the original houses (1774-1779) on the east side of the square survive, overshadowed by the Appleton Tower. Handwritten title by Alasdair Geddes. A print from this glass plate negative was included in the "Higher Education Developments" section of Geddes' replacement "Cities and Town Planning Exibition". See Coll-1167/B/23
Mews, George Square, c 1890-c 1910
George Square as seen from the south west corner of the square. Number 29 is on the right. This (west) side of the square, which contains number 25 where Sir Walter Scott was brought up, is still intact. The rest of it, except for those houses mentioned in the notes in Coll-1167/B/26/18/4, has been completely rebuilt. Handwritten title by R. Dykes.
Buccleuch Place, looking east, c 1890-c 1910
Looking east towards Salisbury Crags. See subsequent images in this series. Handwritten title by Alasdair Geddes. A print from this glass plate negative was included in the "Higher Education Developments" section of Geddes' replacement "Cities and Town Planning Exibition". See Coll-1167/B/23