Plan insc. 'Ground Plan, A.W Buchan & Co., Thistle Pottery, Portobello, Edinburgh. Surveyed 4/4/72 DRB, A.L.'

Description Plan insc. 'Ground Plan, A.W Buchan & Co., Thistle Pottery, Portobello, Edinburgh. Surveyed 4/4/72 DRB, A.L.'

Date 1972

Catalogue Number SC 356489

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of EDD 342/2

Scope and Content Ground plan of the former Thistle Pottery, Pipe Street, Portobello, Edinburgh The Thistle Pottery, established c.1770, came into the ownership of the Buchan family in 1867. It produced a decorated and buff-glaze stoneware, and, at the time of closure in 1972, probably constituted the last complete industrial pottery in Scotland. The pottery was housed in late 18th-century premises, substantially rebuilt and extended after 1879, covering the area of an infilled 18th-century harbour site. Only the two bottle-shaped brick kilns, dating from 1906 and 1909 respectively, now survive. Portobello, amalgamated with Edinburgh in 1896, attracted some importance with the discovery of valuable clay deposits in 1765. The manufacturing of bricks, bottles and pottery became important industries until its last pottery closed in 1972. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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