Edinburgh, Portobello, Joppa Salt Pans View of Joppa Pans House
SC 556465
Description Edinburgh, Portobello, Joppa Salt Pans View of Joppa Pans House
Date 21/9/1979
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 556465
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Joppa Pans, Joppa, Edinburgh The sea-salt industry of Scotland seems to have been the largest of its kind. Its centre was the Forth Estuary, where seawater, undiluted with fresh water, lapped shores where coal was available nearby. Joppa was the site of a set of salt-boiling pans. This two-storey building seems to have been the front range of a salt-boiling works on the shore to the rear. It probably housed a warehouse and office, and possibly a supervisor's house. The salt-boiling industry enjoyed preferential duties under the Salt Acts of the United Kingdom Parliament, to take account of the greater costs in preparing salt from sea-water than from brine. The duty on salt was removed in 1825. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H79/169/5
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