Cockle Mill View from North
ED 11019
Description Cockle Mill View from North
Date c. 1900
Catalogue Number ED 11019
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 537388
Scope and Content Cockle Mill, Cramond, Edinburgh Cockle Mill, mentioned as a grain mill in 1690, was one of four working iron mills on the River Almond between Cramond and Old Cramond Bridge in the 18th century. The decline of the iron industry forced the mill to close in the late 19th century. Only the shell of the mill workers' cottages remain. The surviving mill buildings, including the mill offices reached by an outside stair, stand in a line beyond. Opposite is a dock, and the large horizontal wheel used to haul the boats up river. Boats, carrying coal and iron ore for the iron mills, were hauled upriver from the harbour at Cramond to the dock at Cockle Mill, where they collected the completed mill products, including spades, shovels, nails, hoes, bolts and anchors. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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