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The shop front shows the name of "Hutchison, Registered Plumber and Sanitary Engineer" which is listed in the Edinburgh and Lothians Post Office Directory (1910) as being located at 73 Mary's Street. Handwritten title on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by Alasdair Geddes. A print of the corresponding glass plate negative was exhibited in the "Squalor and Romance" section of Geddes' replacement "Cities and Town Planning Exhibition".

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The slide shows a wall with spikes and a building beyond. This example of spikes is actually in the Canongate. See Coll-1167/B/27/5/15. Handwritten title on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by R. Dykes.

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Old Fishmarket Close, High Street. South side of street. It shows spikes. Handwritten title on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by R. Dykes. A print from the corresponding glass plate negative was included in the "Monuments and Restorations" section of Geddes' replacement "Cities and Town Planning Exibition". See Coll-1167/B/20.

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View of Old Fishmarket Close

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Said to be a precint between High Street tenements and Tron Square Two children in the foreground. There is a note on the original envelope of the corresponding negative which reads "These I should like to be taken again some day" with an illegible signature, possibly "J.B Strong" or "Sim" or "J.B.S.M." Unfortunately, the writer did not note an appropriate title.

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North part of Tron Square. Children can be seen in the courtyard and two people stand on the third storey balcony. Note the old rubble gable on the extreme right, a building in Bell's Wynd.

Scope and Contents South part of Tron Square. Tron Square consists of two rectangular courts, each with buildings on three sides and the south side open. The North part, which is the first part to be approached from High Street via Old Assembly Close, is at a higher elevation, so that the flats in it overlook the backs of those in the South part, which is turn has now a view across the Cowgate to the tall buidlings in Guthrie Street and Chambers Street beyond. The whole complex (built 1899) has been renovated...

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Said to the back of the High Street (south side) between Niddry Street and Blackfriars Street, taken from some point between the Cowgate and High Street.

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St. Ann's School playground. for "Canongait" possibly read "Cowgate". Children pose in 3 rows, the first two seated on steps and the back row standing. Handwritten title on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by R. Dykes.

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Taken from the west courtyard of St. Patrick's Church. St. Ann's School playground. (N.B the titles of scenes are, as in this case, occcasionally confused. The writer of this title was probably Alasdair Geddes). Handwritten title on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by Alasdair Geddes.