View from W showing part of WNW and SW fronts
SC 682037
Description View from W showing part of WNW and SW fronts
Date 9/11/1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 682037
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Thistle Pottery (Portobello Potteries), Pipe Street, Portobello, Edinburgh This pottery was founded in about 1879 by A W Buchan & Co to make stoneware jam jars, bottles for beer and jars for whisky. The firm expanded in the early 1900s, when two new bottle kilns were built. This shows the pottery from the south-west, with the two bottle kilns, dated 1906 and 1909, to the right of the chimney. The other buildings housed moulding shops, packing facilities, and by 1967 other kilns, as the bottle kilns had fallen out of use. As the demand for stoneware jars and bottles declined due to competition with glass containers, Buchans turned to making stoneware table ware. In the 1970s the firm moved to Crieff, and this pottery was demolished, apart from the two kilns, which have been preserved by Edinburgh City Council. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/67/1/7
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