Scope and Contents The original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negative had been titled "Causewayside" but the image is actually of"Crosscauseway". See Coll-1167/B/27/19/5 and note the configuration of the roof-scape of the tenement in the background almost certainly proves that it is a building still standing (1990) on the east side of St. Patrick and Clerk Street. The building on the left must, therefore, be the other side of that shown in Coll-1167/B/27/19/5. The photograph must...

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The image shows the backs of tenements with tiled-roof buildings at the back. Back courts are bounded by stone walls. See alos Coll-1167/B/27/19/5-6. Handwritten title on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by R. Dykes.

Scope and Contents Off Crosscauseway. The location has so far proved impossible to trace. Possibilities are, off East Crosscauseway, Lamb's Close, Kennedy's Close, Murray Street, Dalrymple Place, all demolished in the Edinburgh Improvement Scheme, c. 1930. The Causewayside closes were also suggested, particularly "Jew's Close" near Sciennes Hill House Place, Braid Place, with the old Jewish cemetery dating from 1820, but for various reasons this suggestion is untenable. After much difficulty, the writing on...

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This is the same street as shown in image Coll-1167/B/27/19/8. Handwritten title on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by R. Dykes. 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 title on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negative read "Crosscause", this presumably should have read "Waste Ground, Back of Crosscauseway". Handwritten title on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by R. Dykes.

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Probably read: St. Leonard's School, Girls' Entrance, Forbes Street. Handwritten title on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written 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/27/20/6. 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 on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written 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 on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by Alasdair Geddes. A print of the corresponding glass plate negative...

Scope and Contents Richmond Place. The title detailed on the original envelope read "Ethylotragedy Arithocomedy (O T garden & neighbour). A tragedy for ethyl (a sad state for the chemical or for alcohol) and a comedy in numbers (at least four bits of glass) illustrates the writer's sense of humour. He means that the glass slide (or plate) has been broken. The writer has been identified as Alasdair Geddes. He may have been recording his father's words. For comments on Geddes' habit of "inventing extravagant...