Scope and Contents Bristo Street is on the left and continued soutwards beyond the right of the picture (see Coll-1167/B/27/17/4 which shows the corner of the building on the right). This view is looking east along Marshall Stret (almost entirely demolished) to Nicolson Square and the Royal Bank of Scotland (1902) with the conically roofed tower beyond, still standing in 1989. The two projecting tenements (1765) in Nicolson Square are visible. Potterow double road now (1998) runs slightly west of them (nearer...

Scope and Contents The junction of Bristo Street, on the left, and Charles Street, on the right leading to George Square. Bristo Street ran diagonally across the Charles Street car park from Bristo Square (a new development, c. 1980) to the north end of Chapel Street. It was a main road, now replaced by the new Potterow. The drysalter's shop on the left was in existence until the demolition of the street (c. 1970?). "Parker's Corner" on the right shows the building as it was (c. 1910) before the opening of a...

Scope and Contents The junction of Potterow (right) looking approximately north, and Bristo Street (left of print) looking north west. The buildings shown in images Coll-1167/B/27/17/2-4 are therefore on the right hand side of the street on the left of The image, i.e. Bristo Street viewed from the other end. The street, with its c. 1700-1900 buildings, had close associations with Robert Burns. Potterow, to the right, was a less important thoroughfare, being narrower. In the centre of the picture, at the "V"...

Scope and Contents The United Free Church off Marshall Street. See images Coll-1167/B/27/17/2-4. The church was situated behind the buildings shown in print Coll1167/B/27/17/2. Lothian Street (Coll-1167/B/27/17/1) bounded the block on the north. The site is now occupied by the Student Centre or the adjacent roadway, or pathway, north of the car park. In image Coll-1167/B/27/17/3, this entrance was on the left-hand side of Marshall Street looking east, where a break in the building line can just be detected...

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United Free Church off Marshall Street. See images Coll-1167/B/27/17/1 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 on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by R. Dykes. Old container: Green Box 38

Scope and Contents 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 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 "Higher Education...

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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 on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by R. Dykes.

Scope and Contents 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/27/18/3) 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/27/18/4 which is one story lower. Demolished 1960. Handwritten title on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives...

Scope and Contents 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 on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by Alasdair Geddes. A print from the corresponding glass plate negative was included in the "Higher Education Developments" section of Geddes'...

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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/27/18/4, has been completely rebuilt. Handwritten title on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by R. Dykes.