Historic Environment Scotland Collections
551 500/11
Description Historic Environment Scotland Collections
Collection Historic Environment Scotland
Catalogue Number 551 500/11
Category All Other
Scope and Content This collection is formed of photographs of material held by HES, but outwith HES Archives collections. It has been digitised by HES Archives for depictions of a historic site and/or a Property in Care. This includes historic drawings of Trinity House, material which is held by HES Collections.
Archive History This was originally created as a temporary group for digitisation of an Old Whithorn hall painting. The drawings of Trinity House were items held by HES Collections in relation to Trinity House, a Property in Care. They included an album of drawings by Thomas Brown, the architect of Trinity House, dated 1816. Alongside this were loose drawings: some signed by Brown and dated 1815-16; others that appear contemporaneous to Brown, but unsigned and undated; and later material, including site plans by James Simpson, Leith Burgh architect, and late 20th C. photocopies of modern technical drawings of the site.
Administrative History This group was originally created as a temporary group for digitisation of an Old Whithorn hall painting. It will be used for digitising non-archives HES collections from Feb 2025 onwards. Trinity House drawings held by HES Collections were loaned to HES Archives for digitisation in 2024-25. The material was digitised as it is a depiction of a historic site and Property in Care and the decision was taken Feb 2025 to use this group (551/500/11) as the collection grouping in which to place photographs from digitisation of non-archives HES collections. Each project and grouping shall be placed in clearly delineated group folders. Collections relating to a particular Property in Care shall be organised by site as the node from which collections are arranged - with offshoot batches - as with the Trinity House material (551/500/11/1).
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