Edinburgh Castle, Scottish National War Memorial
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Site type WAR MEMORIAL (20TH CENTURY)
Canmore ID 79631
Site Number NT27SE 1.31
NGR NT 25170 73474
Council EDINBURGH, CITY OF
Parish EDINBURGH (EDINBURGH, CITY OF)
Former Region LOTHIAN
Former District CITY OF EDINBURGH
Former County MIDLOTHIAN
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Item  | Description | Collection | Date | Copyright |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PA 124/23V | 'Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh Castle' Photograph Album no 124: Vivian Beesly's Book p.23v Black hard-backed notebook with cloth spine and line pages, inscribed in pencil on title page 'Easter 1928, Vivian Beesly, (born July 1915) containing a written account of her 'tour of parts of North England and Scotland' followed by professional photographs and postcards. | |||
| PA 134 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO.134: DUNARA CASTLE Four grey pages from a cord-bound photograph album (190 x 275 mm), thirteen cream, blue, white and pink pages from a gilt edged autograph album (215 x 165 mm), an envelope containing small photographs and a few loose photographs, three of them portraits - all in a 1974 card calendar folder. Mostly pictures from a cruise in 1929 on the ship "Dunara Castle" to the Hebrides and Western Isles, belonging to the mother of T A Parkes (who gave these to NTS for disposal) - she probably came from the West of Scotland (Glasgow portrait photographers c.1900-10). Pictures show the ship, passengers, crew and scenes of places they visited including the MacLeod of MacLeod, and fisher girls in Scalpay. There is a picture of Gillespie Manse, Biggar and a miniature horseshoe "made by the blacksmith at the Clachan at the Glasgow Exhibition, 1938." | 1929 | ||
| PA 191/5/1 | Page 5: "The Scottish War Memorial" PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 191: THE HONEYMOON TOUR IN SCOTLAND 1929 Black album containing 24 black card pages. The front cover has embossed title "Photographs" with a small embossed landscape. Inside the back cover is a vertical slot for negatives or loose prints and pasted in at bottom left is a label "The Oban Album no S274, Johnson, London". Page 1 is titled "The Honeymoon Tour in Scotland, Sept. 23rd to Oct. 5th 1929" and inside the front cover is a wedding photograph -"leaving St Pete's Aintree". The tour was made in a bull-nosed Morris (?) towing a caravan, visiting Edinburgh and the Trossachs before returning via the Lake District. The photographs include many professional views-JV (John Valentine). | |||
| B 19871 | Copy of historic photographic view of Engineers panel in E Chapel. | RCAHMS | ||
| B 27241 PC | Postcard. Interior, view of the shrine. | RCAHMS | ||
| RAB 289/2 | Sepia photograph of National War Memorial. | General Collection | RCAHMS | |
| RAB 299/OP24/1 | Photograph of rear view of Memorial. | General Collection | 1943 | RCAHMS |
| RAB 299/OP24/2 | Photograph of entrance front of Memorial. | General Collection | 1943 | RCAHMS |
| RAB 299/OP76 | Photograph of entrance to the shrine. | General Collection | 1943 | RCAHMS |
| B 78103 PC | Postcard. Interior, view of entrance to the Shrine. | 1930 | RCAHMS | |
| EDD 8/105 | Exhibition panel of 8 plans and elevations of Lorimer's proposal for the Scottish National War Memorial Insc: 'Edinburgh Castle. Reconstruction of disused barrack as Scottish National War Memorial. Old North Elevation. West Elevation. New Plan. North Elevation. South Elevation. Old South Elevation. Section Old Plan. SIr Robert Lorimer. A.R.A. Architect.' | Sir Robert Stodart Lorimer | ||
| EDD 8/112 | Project for SNWM. Early scheme. Perspective view of octagon chapel and adjoining 'cloister court' Looking North | |||
| ED 8581 PO | Royal Artillery Panel, East wall | RCAHMS | ||
| ED 8582 | Historic photographic view of Engineer's panel in E chapel. | RCAHMS | ||
| D 80898 PC | Postcard. General view. | Ian G Lindsay | ||
| H 96483 PO | View of interior at Edinburgh Castle, possibly in the Scottish National War Memorial. Stamp of Francis Caird Inglis on reverse. | Inglis | ||
| SMO E/1/2/1 | Photographic view showing shrine exterior from North West. | Scott Morton | 1927 | RCAHMS |
| SMO E/1/2/2 | Photographic view showing porch and gallery exterior from South East. | Scott Morton | 1927 | RCAHMS |
| SMO E/1/2/3 | Religious art and design elements. Photographic view showing entrance to shrine from gallery. | Scott Morton | 1927 | RCAHMS |
| SMO E/1/2/4 | Religious art and design elements. Photographic view showing figure of Saint Michael in shrine. | Scott Morton | 1927 | RCAHMS |
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