Edinburgh, 12-14 John's Place, Warehouse View from S showing SW and SE fronts
SC 618001
Description Edinburgh, 12-14 John's Place, Warehouse View from S showing SW and SE fronts
Date 1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 618001
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Warehouses, Nos 12-14 John's Place, Edinburgh Leith's role in the 19th century as the port of south-eastern Scotland resulted in the construction of a large number of warehouses. Many of them were bonded for the storage of wines and spirits. Some were also used for blending and bottling for retail sale. This shows two large bonded warehouses in John's Place. On the left is a block built in 1862 to designs by J Anderson Hamilton, and on the right a larger range dating from 1898, and probably built for the storage of whisky, during the whisky boom of the later 1890s. These warehouses face Leith Links, an ancient open space, and were therefore given neater facades than was general for buildings of this type. They were converted into flats in the 1990s, after a long period of disuse. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H69/538/1B
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