Edinburgh, 2-4 Restalrig Drive, Munrospun Factory General View
SC 556552
Description Edinburgh, 2-4 Restalrig Drive, Munrospun Factory General View
Date 1979
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 556552
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Restalrig Factory, Restalrig Drive, Edinburgh This large factory was built in 1910 to designs by JR and EE Pearson forMunro and Co Ltd, hosiery and 'homespun' manufacturers, who in the 1930s made ladies' and gents' sporting hose, coats and waistcoats. This view shows the layout off the factory, which has two street-frontage blocks, one two storey, as seen here, and the other three storey, seen to the left, with single-storey workshops to the rear, and a water tower, both seen to the right. The water tower was necessary because the factory was on top of a hill, a landmark in that part of Edinburgh. By the 1990s it had closed, and had been converted into flats. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H79/195/3
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