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There is nothing here to show whether the photograph was taken for the sake of the buildings or the children. See previous print Coll-1167/B/26/2/7. Handwritten title by Alasdair Geddes.

Scope and Contents Yard between Springvally Terrace and Morningside Road, second version. The back of the Springvalley Terrace is shown here. An adjacent tradesman's yard is still in existence (1988). This site is now a car park behind a restaurant. Compare to images in Coll-1167/B/26/13/4 and 7, which also show sites of light industry behind tenement buildings. Handwritten title by Alasdair Geddes. A print of this glass plate negative was exhibited in the "Strata of Edinburgh: Breakdown of Formal" section of...

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When this photograph was taken, this street, which now (1998) runs between Hermitage Drive and Greenbank Crescent, must have been virtually in the country, with no building to the south, and very little in the surrounding area. Handwritten title by Alasdair Geddes.

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A small garden village at Gorgie was "erected 1895, by the late Mr Cox, per Outlook Tower. S.H Capper, Architect." This quote taken directly from the catalogue of Geddes' "Cities and Town Planning Exhibition", Dublin (1911), in relation to catalogue number 86.

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Roseburn Bridge looking north. Geddes built cottages, "a small garden village" at Roseburn 1897-1900; McArthy and Watson, Architects. Referred to in Geddes' "Cities and Town Planning Exhibition".

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Roseburn looking north-east. The arch of Coltbridge is visible beyond. See previous image Coll-1167/B/26/22/13.

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This street, where building began in 1823, contains some of the earliest outer suburban villas.

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Geddes was always critical of the "system of high stone-built flats".

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An elaborate house, Scottish Baronial, with a boy pulling a cart in front, rear the corner of Wardie Road. Handwritten title by Alasdair Geddes.

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A house with two-story gable and a one-storey wing with an oriel window, next to the villa shown in the previous image Coll-1167/B/26/22/17. Handwritten title by Alasdair Geddes.