Edinburgh, Dundee Street, North British Rubber Company Works View from ENE showing SE front of North British Rubber Company Works with Union Canal Bridge Number 1 in background. This building built o ...

Description Edinburgh, Dundee Street, North British Rubber Company Works View from ENE showing SE front of North British Rubber Company Works with Union Canal Bridge Number 1 in background. This building built of stone dates from 1836/7 and was extended east in brick by the NB Rubber Co.

Date 17/6/1966

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 588840

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Castle Mills of the North British Rubber Co Ltd, Gilmore Park, Edinburgh (Edinburgh City council area) This large complex was established by an American owned company to make goods of vulcanised India rubber using Charles Goodyear's patents. It was the first works of its kind in Europe. Initially it reused a former silk mill. This view shows the south front of the western section of the mills, with the Leamington Basin of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal in the foreground. The central section of the building was the original silk mill. This works closed in the late 1960s and was demolished. Its site is now occupied by the Fountain Brewery of Scottish and Newcastle Breweries. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H66/37/2C

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/588840

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