Scope and Contents Yard between Springvally Terrace and Morningside Road, first version. Looking east towards Morningside Road; the building in the centre right is the Public Library, opened 1905. Tenements on the east side of Morningside Road are visible beyond. The foreground is (1989) the car park of a public house. 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...

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/27/13/4 and 7, which also show sites of light industry behind tenement buildings. Handwritten title on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by Alasdair Geddes. A print of the...

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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 on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written 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/27/22/13.