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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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