Architecture Notes

Event ID 779550

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NMRS REFERENCE:

Plans:

Dick Peddie and MacKay, Edinburgh (cancelled)

Architect: Sydney Mitchell 1886 - 1888

Drawings in plan chest - drawer 2

See Historical File (1.12)

CITY CHAMBERS REFERENCE:

Plans: City Architect's Plan Store, drawer no 88, contains:

a. Plan of Blackford Hill shewing ground and accesses acquired by the Magistrates and Council as a Public Park from Colonel Trotter of Mortonhall, dated Burgh Engineer's Office, Edinburgh, June 1884

b. Cloth tracing of 'Proposed Harrison Memorial'. Two scales are shown but the tracing is dimensioned. Dated 1888 from 13 Young Street, the address of Sydney Mitchell, Architect (N B R 1 dyeline drawer 5)

c. Copy of plan of site for the new Royal Observatory, signed by W W Robertson, H M Office of Works, Edinbrugh, January 1890; and by John Boyd, Lord Provost and Wm Skinner, Town Clerk, March 1890.

d. Plan of ground called 'Egyptfield' and enbracing the pond, dated Burgh Engineer's Office, 1906 and also Public Works Office, 1907

e. Contract drawings of Keeper's Lodge at North Entrance by Public Works Office, 1903

The City Architect's Department also holds the plans of 1938 of Pavillion and West Entrance.