Edinburgh, 19-21 St Leonard's Street, St Leonard's Brewery. View from NE showing NNW front and part of NE front

Description Edinburgh, 19-21 St Leonard's Street, St Leonard's Brewery. View from NE showing NNW front and part of NE front

Date 1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 618045

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content St Leonard's Brewery, Nos 19-21 St Leonard's Street, Edinburgh This brewery was built in 1889-90 for G Mackay & Co Ltd, to designs by P L Henderson, an architect who specialised in designing breweries and public houses. As it had frontages to two important streets the façades were unusually elaborate. This shows the frontage of the brewery to East Crosscauseway, with the malt kiln on the left, in St Leonard's Street. The mash house is just beyond the corner to the right. This was a victim of declining demand for beer as manual labour was ousted by mechanisation in industry. It escaped the wave of amalgamations that swept brewing in Britain from 1959, but did not survive the ensuing competition. The buildings were disused in 1969 and were demolished in the mid-1970s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H69/541/2C

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