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Business papers, notebooks, diaries, maps and plans of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10706/1-697
Scope and Contents
These papers contain the business archive of the Stevensons from the late 18th century to the mid 20th century. They consist mainly of letterbooks, incoming correspondence, reports, memoranda, maps and plans, with a large number of printed pamphlets and reports by the Stevensons and others, concerning all the civil engineering works with which the family was involved. The main interest lies in the material relating to harbours and to lighthouse construction, and to the work of the Northern...
Dates:
1636-1963.
Business papers of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.216- is now Acc.10706.
Dates:
Circa 1795-1905.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Robert Grieve.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10205
Scope and Contents
Concern Grieve`s work on the Clyde Valley Regional Plan and other working during his period as a senior and Chief Planner, Scottish Office.
Dates:
circa 1945-1964.
Correspondence, notes, literary papers and other papers of the Cunninghame Graham family, mostly of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham; and financial and administrative papers relating to Gartmore and Ardoch.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11335/1-227
Dates:
1757-1991.
Digital images of estate maps and plans of properties belonging to the Maxwells of Monreith surveyed by John Gilone.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13374- Map Library.
Dates:
1777-1778
Drawings, photographs, maps, plans and prints, largely from the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition devised by Sir Patrick Geddes.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13319
Scope and Contents
The Cities and Town Planning Exhibition was originally conceived in conjunction with the first Town Planning Conference of 1910 organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects, at Burlington House, London, to mark the passing of the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909. Patrick Geddes was asked to be its Director and used it to demonstrate his method of city survey. After the conference, Geddes toured the exhibition to cities interested in learning about the latest developments in...
Dates:
1649-1919, undated
Estate and other plans and maps, with some drawings, concerning various places in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Acc.10086
Dates:
19th century to 20th century.
Maps and plans from the papers of the family Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.27638-27847
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1770-1915, 1958, undated.
Photocopies of "A Book of Maps of Finlayston Estate", 1770, and plans, 18th century to 19th century, of Ayrshire estates.
File
Identifier: Acc.4229
Dates:
18th century to 19th century.
Plan of the lands of Ardoch, 1771; plan of the barony of Gartmore, 1776; and a book of maps of Finlayston Estate, 1770.
Series
Identifier: Dep.95- is now Acc.4325.
Dates:
1770-1776.
Printed and manuscript maps and plans of estates and other land areas in Scotland and Canada.
File
Identifier: Acc.10085
Dates:
19th century to 20th century.
Records of the Scottish Youth Hostels Association
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13372
Scope and Contents
Annual Reports, minutes, correspondence, reports, property records and photographs, 1931-2012, undated, of and relating to the Scottish Youth Hostels Association.Following preliminary meetings in 1930s, the Scottish Youth Hostels Association was formed in Edinburgh in1931at a public meeting chaired by Lord Salvesen ‘To help all, but especially young people of limited means living and working in industrial and other areas, to know use and appreciate the Scottish countryside and...
Dates:
1931-2000