View from ENE showing part of brewery
SC 682091
Description View from ENE showing part of brewery
Date 1/1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 682091
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Argyle Brewery, No 17 Chambers Street and No 147 Cowgate, Edinburgh This was probably the oldest brewery in Edinburgh, founded in 1740 by Archibald Campbell. The firm was one of the first in the city to develop markets outside it, developing markets in Glasgow, and later in London. In 1896 Campbells joined a Glasgow firm to form Archibald Campbell, Hope & King Ltd. This shows the brewery from Cowgate, looking south-west. The tall building with the roof-ridge ventilator is the brewhouse, and was probably built in the 1870s or 1880s. The brewery was still operating in 1967, as can be seen by the wisp of steam to the right of the brewhouse. The firm was taken over in 1967 by Whitbreads, almost at the end of a series of takeovers of Scottish brewery companies which saw both ownership and breweries concentrated in a small number of units. This brewery was closed and the buildings sold to Edinburgh University, which has demolished them. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/67/3/0
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