Edinburgh, Scotland

Scope and Contents The back of the present (1989) Deaconess Hospital is visible at the far end of the back greens, (the front is the Pleasance, see Coll-1167/B/26/20/2). This building, now much altered and extended, dates from from 1894. Carnegie Street not visible was on the left. Brown Street, of which the back is shown here, on the right. The square roofed extension at the left back of the hospital can still be identified though a story has been added. The three-storey separate building on the left no...

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The Annexe (?) at the Deaconess Hospital shown also in the previous image Coll-1167/B/26/20/6. This view is looking south. Handwritten title by R. Dykes.

Scope and Contents The back of the present (1989) Deaconess Hospital is visible at the far end of the back greens, (the front is the Pleasance, see Coll-1167/B/27/20/2). This building, now much altered and extended, dates from from 1894. Carnegie Street not visible was on the left. Brown Street, of which the back is shown here, on the right. The square roofed extension at the left back of the hospital can still be identified though a story has been added. The three-storey separate building on the left no...

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The Annexe (?) at the Deaconess Hospital shown also in the previous image Coll-1167/B/27/20/6. This view is looking south. Handwritten title on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by R. Dykes.

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Duplicate photographic print of Coll-1167/B/27/20/6 showing washing greens at the back of the Deaconess Hospital.

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Reproduction postcard showing Robert Adam's design of the east fron of the new building for the University of Edinburgh. "Robert Adam Architect: engraved by permission for the Record. Published as the Act Directs 25th Oct. 1791." No attribution. Number on back, A3.

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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 The railings shown here have been replaced by a stone wall.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 this 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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A villa in the Grange. Cottage orné style. Cottage Orné style or decorated cottage, dates back to a movement of 'rustic' stylised cottages of the late 18th and early 19th century during the Romantic movement, when some sought to discover a more "natural" way of living as opposed to the formality of the preceding baroque and neo-classical architectural styles.

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...

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A villa in the Grange. Cottage orné style. Cottage Orné style or decorated cottage, dates back to a movement of 'rustic' stylised cottages of the late 18th and early 19th century during the Romantic movement, when some sought to discover a more "natural" way of living as opposed to the formality of the preceding baroque and neo-classical architectural styles.