View from SW showing part of SE front of E half of works with canal on right

Description View from SW showing part of SE front of E half of works with canal on right

Date 17/6/1966

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

Catalogue Number SC 677855

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 frontage to the Union Canal of the eastern section of the mills, which occupied a large area on both sides of Gilmore Park. The red and white brick buildings in this view are characteristic of the later 18th-century additions to the original silk mill. 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 H35/66/17/9

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/677855

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap