Edinburgh, Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 788 Collections and/or Records:
Outlook Tower - Edinburgh Room, south west corner, c 1985
Item — Box Box 4 of 9: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/27/24/1
Scope and Contents
Outlook Tower, Edinburgh Room. This L-shaped room, with the other "leg" at right-angles beyond the curtain on the left, accomodated the Patrick Geddes Centre for Planning Studies of the Unversity of Edinburgh, (c. 1989 - c. 2000). It was on the fourth floor of the Outlook Tower. The right-hand window commands a view of the Castle, the left-hand one of south Edinburgh to the Pentlands, and two others, at the end of the "leg" and behind the camera, down the Lawnmarket and over North Edinburgh....
Dates:
c 1985
Outlook Tower - Edinburgh Room, south west corner, c 1890-c 1910
Item — Box Box 3 of 7: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/26/24/1
Scope and Contents
Outlook Tower, Edinburgh Room. This L-shaped room, with the other "leg" at right-angles beyond the curtain on the left, accomodated the Patrick Geddes Centre for Planning Studies of the Unversity of Edinburgh, (c. 1989 - c. 2000). It was on the fourth floor of the Outlook Tower. The right-hand window commands a view of the Castle, the left-hand one of south Edinburgh to the Pentlands, and two others, at the end of the "leg" and behind the camera, down the Lawnmarket and over North Edinburgh....
Dates:
c 1890-c 1910
Outlook Tower - Edinburgh Room, south west corner, c 1989
Item — Box Box 7 of 9: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/30/20
Scope and Contents
Duplicate photographic print of Coll-1167/B/27/24/1 showing the south west corner of the Edinburgh Room at the Outlook Tower.
Dates:
c 1989
Outlook Tower Garden, c 1890-c 1910
Item — Box Box 1 of 7: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/26/1/13
Scope and Contents
Outlook Tower Garden (east of Outlook Tower) from above. 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.
Dates:
c 1890-c 1910
Outlook Tower Garden, c 1890-c 1910
Item — Box Box 1 of 7: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/26/1/14
Scope and Contents
Barrels by wall, Outlook Tower Garden . The gardens in these three prints in Section A were like those shown in later sections, cultivated by poor children whom geddes sought to educate. (See also Coll-1167/B/26/7/8-11; Coll-1167/B/26/8/3; Coll-1167/B/26/10/1-10 and Coll-1167/B/26/19/15). Views with children are shown throughout the collection, particularly in sections Coll-1167/B/26/3; Coll-1167/B/26/4 and Coll-1167/B/26/25. A print from this glass plate negative was included in the "Open...
Dates:
c 1890-c 1910
Outlook Tower Garden, c 1985
Item — Box Box 1 of 9: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/27/1/13
Scope and Contents
Outlook Tower Garden (east of Outlook Tower) from above. 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.
Dates:
c 1985
Outlook Tower Garden, c 1985
Item — Box Box 1 of 9: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/27/1/14
Scope and Contents
Barrels by wall, Outlook Tower Garden . The gardens in these three prints in Section A were like those shown in later sections, cultivated by poor children whom geddes sought to educate. (See also Coll-1167/B/27/7/8-11; Coll-1167/B/27/8/3; Coll-1167/B/27/10/1-10 and Coll-1167/B/27/19/15). Views with children are shown throughout the collection, particularly in sections Coll-1167/B/27/3; Coll-1167/B/27/4 and Coll-1167/B/27/25. A print from the corresponding glass plate negative was included...
Dates:
c 1985
Outlook Tower Garden from above, c 1890-c 1910
Item — Box Box 1 of 7: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/26/1/12
Scope and Contents
Outlook Tower Garden (east of Outlook Tower) from above. The establishment and maintenance of gardens such as these were part of Geddes' programme for the social development of slum areas, and the education of the deprived children who lived in them. See, particularly series Coll-1167/B/26/10 and Coll-1167/B/26/25 but there are several relevant images in other series. Handwritten title by Alasdair Geddes. A print from this glass plate negative was included in the "Open Spaces as Gardens and...
Dates:
c 1890-c 1910
Outlook Tower Garden from above, c 1985
Item — Box Box 1 of 9: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/27/1/12
Scope and Contents
Outlook Tower Garden (east of Outlook Tower) from above. The establishment and maintenance of gardens such as these were part of Geddes' programme for the social development of slum areas, and the education of the deprived children who lived in them. See, particularly series Coll-1167/B/27/10 and Coll-1167/B/27/25 but there are several relevant images in other series. Handwritten title on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by Alasdair Geddes....
Dates:
c 1985
Outlook Tower gardener and neighbour, c 1890-c 1910
Item — Box Box 6 of 7: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/26/20/5
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...
Dates:
c 1890-c 1910