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Edinburgh -- Scotland

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 839 Collections and/or Records:

City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh Development Plan: St James Square (Leith Street etc) Comprehensive Development Area - Programme map for Comprehensive Development Area map no 5 (amended), c1963

 Item
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/1.8.15
Scope and Contents

Linen backed copy of 1:1250 Ordnance Survey Plan (65cm x 70cm), with local amendments, overlaid with phasing boundaries for the St James Square (Leith Street etc) Comprehensive Development Area. These were to take place over 20 years. The plan is hand-coloured and plot acreages are given. The hand coloured legend includes total acreages per phase.

Dates: c1963

City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh development plan: University: Nicolson Street Comprehensive Development Area, 1972

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/1.8.4
Scope and Contents

Set of 4 coloured manuscript themed plans by the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh overlaid on an Ordnance Survey 1:1250 scale mosaic base map (90cm x 120cm). One is a zoning map with coloured areas indicated for phases 1-4, each phase taking 5 years. One shows the levels of surveys required in certain areas, one shows electoral ward boundaries and one shows compulsory purchase designations in the area, with total acreages.

Dates: 1972

City of Edinburgh Planning and Transport Study - reports, 1971

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/A/1.2
Scope and Contents

3 reports commissioned for the City of Edinburgh Planning and Transport Study by the Corporation of the City of Edinburgh. These give proposals for managing traffic in Edinburgh, including provision for cars and pedestrians. The reports were collected by Percy Johnson-Marshall as part of his work for the City of Edinburgh Working Party on Major Highway Planning.

Dates: 1971

City of Edinburgh Working Party on Major Highway Planning: minutes, reports and correspondence, 1964-1976

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/A/1.1
Scope and Contents

Mixed file of papers relating to Percy Johnson-Marshall's work for the City of Edinburgh Working Party on Major Highway Planning. The papers document details of various schemes for a new road infrastructure for Edinburgh and include: feasibility reports, committee minutes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs of models, related articles and plans. Many of these papers document proposals for an inner ring motorway for Edinburgh.

Dates: 1964-1976

Cobweb, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2578
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a cobweb located at 2 Marchall Road [Edinburgh, Scotland] taken by E.M.J. in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Collected reports concerning transportation planning in Edinburgh, 1963-1983

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/A/1.3
Scope and Contents

8 reports concerning transportation and pedestrian planning issues in Edinburgh, mostly collected by Percy Johnson-Marshall as part of his work for the City of Edinburgh Working Party on Major Highway Planning.

Dates: 1963-1983

Collection of 19th-century photographs of Scotland and Geneva, Switzerland

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-1984
Content Description

This collection comprises twenty-one black-and-white photographs mounted on board showing various locations in Scotland (including Edinburgh, Stirling, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, Loch Katrine), Geneva, and an unidentified location (probably also Geneva).

Dates: late 19th century

Coloured and annotated Orographic Map of Arthur's Seat, late 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-99/11/6
Scope and Contents

Orographic Map of Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh with added hand colouring and annotations denoting geological features.

Dates: late 19th century

Coloured and annotated plan of Edinburgh, late 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-99/11/5
Scope and Contents

Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory plan (1879), with later hand colouring and notation denoting geological and other features.

Dates: late 19th century

Committee Papers, 1962-1985

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/A
Scope and Contents This consists of incomplete sets of papers for a variety of Committees, relevant to the development of the University of Edinburgh, in which Percy Johnson-Marshall participated: papers of the City of Edinburgh Working Party on Major Highway Planning, (1963-1983) papers of the University of Edinburgh Works and Buildings Committee, (1973-1985) papers of the University of...
Dates: 1962-1985