View from N showing NNE front of main Gilmore Park entrance of W half

Description View from N showing NNE front of main Gilmore Park entrance of W half

Date 17/6/1966

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

Catalogue Number SC 677853

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content North British Rubber Company Works (Castle Mills), Dundee Street, Edinburgh This works was founded in 1855 by an American, Henry Lee Norris, to exploit the patents of Thomas Hancock for vulcanising india rubber. He founded The North British Rubber Co, with premises in a former silk mill in Gilmore Park, beside the Edinburgh & Glasgow Union Canal. This shows the main entrance to the original works from Gilmore Park. The name Castle Mills was retained from the silk mill. The building on the left is an extension of the silk mill, and is parallel to the canal, which provided cooling water for the mills. This works was founded to make rubber overshoes and sandshoes, but it later became a large-scale maker of rubber tyres for bicycles and motor vehicles. In 1963 it was the largest manufacturing concerns in the east of Scotland. It moved to Newbridge in the late 1960s, and the Castle Mills were demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/66/17/7

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/677853

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