Edinburgh, Scotland

Scope and Contents Items within the "Strata of Edinburgh" section of Geddes' "Cities and Town Planning Exhibition", Dublin (1911) were categorised (i) New and Old; (ii) Best of New Town; (iii) Breakdown of formal plan; (iv) Workshops behind present day tenements; (iv) Old cottages; (vi) Squalid life of back streets. Only one item is listed here, the remainder being made up of photographs from Geddes' photographic "Survey of Edinburgh" under the headings listed above. See Coll-1167/B/26/1/4-6;...

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Likely to be a facsimile of an engraving drawn by Thomas Shepherd and engraved by Thomas Barber, showing Surgeon's Square in Edinburgh.

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A plan showing the survey of open spaces in the Old Town of Edinburgh, undertaken by the Outlook Tower Committee, c 1913, with the aim of reclaiming 75 pieces of land, totalling 10 acres, for the purpose of turning them into gardens.

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Geddes was always critical of the "system of high stone-built flats".

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Geddes was always critical of the "system of high stone-built flats".

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This point can be matched with image Coll-1167/B/26/21/2 to make a panoramic photograph, but the negatives were not originally filed consecutively, or even in the same box. Note the road in the foreground. Handwritten title 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 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/26/21/4. Handwritten title 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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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.