Edinburgh, Tower Street, Leith Signal Tower View from NNW showing curved NNW front
SC 519434
Description Edinburgh, Tower Street, Leith Signal Tower View from NNW showing curved NNW front
Date 1977
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 519434
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Windmill tower, Shore, Leith, Edinburgh This is the stump of a windmill designed by Robert Mylne and built to crush lead ore from the Leadhills/Wanlockhead area for export to Holland for use in glazing ceramic products. It was later used as a signal tower. This view shows the mill from the north west. It is now integrated with the 19th century tenement to the right and the public house whose single-storey extension appears as the base of the building in this view. At the time of its construction the mill was at the landward end of the east pier which protected the river-mouth port of Leith. Much of the trade of Leith was at that period with Holland and with other northern European countries. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H77/77/12
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