Edinburgh, Commercial Wharf, Warehouse View from E showing SE front and part of NE front
SC 618013
Description Edinburgh, Commercial Wharf, Warehouse View from E showing SE front and part of NE front
Date 1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 618013
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Warehouse, Commercial Wharf, Leith, Edinburgh Leith's role as the port of south-eastern Scotland in the 19th century 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 an isolated warehouse, with its own wharf on the inner harbour of Leith. The building, with its central hoist, was probably originally built for the storage of imported grain, but was subsequently used as a bonded warehouse known as 'Bond 9'. Until the late 1960s this building was in partial use as a cooperage, repairing barrels for the whisky industry, but by 1969 it was disused. It was converted into flats in the 1980s, the first of many such conversions in Leith. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H69/539/2A
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