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Scope and Contents This must refer to the Old Infirmary or Surgical Hospital between Drummond Street and High School Yards, now part of the University of Edinburgh. The City Wall in the Pleasance is still in existence. The exact site of this picture has not been identified. 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'...

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Note the corrugated iron face, and a road, with setts in the foreground. It is possible that the tenements in the background were adjacent to Holyrood Park known in Geddes' time as the Queen's, and later the King's Park.

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This scene has defied identification. Note that the buildings may in fact be of two storeys and attics at the front. The vicinity of Grassmarket and of St. John's Hill has been suggested.

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This point can be matched with image Coll-1167/B/27/21/2 to make a panoramic photograph, but the corresponding glass plate negatives were not originally filed consecutively, or even in the same box. Note the road in the foreground. Handwritten title on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by Alasdair Geddes.

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Dunsappie Loch is in the foreground by the road, Arthur's seat on the left, Whinny Hill on the right. Handwritten title on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by Alasdair Geddes.

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In his study on the origins of Edinburgh in the Outline Survey of the City, shown in the exhibition of 1910, Geddes refers to "cultivation terraces on the south slope" (of the Old Town). These had been virtually obliterated by subsequent development. See notes against the next image in the series Coll-1167/B/27/21/4. Handwritten title on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by Alasdair Geddes.

Scope and Contents Terraces on Arthur Seat could refer to other theories about their origins. "...Traces of trenches thrown up (1788) by mutinous Seaforth Highlanders Discontent having arisen in connection with their departure for India, several hundreds of men attacked their officers on the Esplanade, and then held their position here (i.e on Arthur's Seat) for several days until a free pardon was offered them". From Reid's "The New Illustrated Guide to Edinburgh" (1936). Hearsay also suggests, perhaps...

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The Blacket area, originally within the policies of Newington House, has some of the earliest villa in the southern outer suburbs, dating from 1825 onwards. 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 "Open Spaces as Gardens and Playgrounds" section of Geddes' replacement "Cities and Town Planning Exibition". See Coll-1167/B/24.

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The building on the left has been demolished, and the whole court, which formerly contained stables was much improved in 1969. The buildings, off Causewayside, a little to th north of its junction with Grange Road, date originally from c.1700-1800.

Scope and Contents A villa in the Grange. The railings shown here have been replaced by a stone wall. Althought the landed proprietor, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, commissioned the drawing-up of a feuing plan in 1825, the building of the villas did not begin until Grange Road was opened (as far as the cemetery) in 1845. A print from the corresponding glass plate negative was included in the "Open Spaces as Gardens and Playgrounds" section of Geddes' replacement "Cities and Town Planning Exibition". See...