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PA 145 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
Photograph Album No 145: Addistoun
Maroon hard-backed album containing 16 brown pages, numbered (pp 23 - 30 missing), presented by the Centre for Architectural History and Theory, University of Edinburgh.
Photographic record of the building of both house and lodge inscribed inside front cover 'Leica Book III Addistoun 1937 to 1946', including the architect Charles Geddes Soutar (1878 - 1952), surveyors and builders. Addistoun was built on the site of a previous house at Ratho by Annette and Dr Janet Smith whose flitting from 11 Midmar Gardens, Edinburgh is shown and there are views of the interior and exterior of the new house. During WWII the grounds were used to grow food and there are photographs, some of which were published in The Field in the Spring of 1941, of family members attending to the ploughing, hens, bees, goats and haystacks, and of bomb craters. One photograph shows 3051101 Pte E Waterston. The Smith's parents had built Clashinruich, Glencairn [Ballater] in 1915 - a small green page with 5 pictures of it is enclosed
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1937 |
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