View from ESE showing SSE front of numbers 73-75 with sugar refinery in background and part of numbers 76-78 in foreground

Description View from ESE showing SSE front of numbers 73-75 with sugar refinery in background and part of numbers 76-78 in foreground

Date 3/3/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 717819

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Sugar Refinery (Warehouse), No 72 Regent Quay, Aberdeen This sugar refinery was built in 1776 by a group of Aberdeen merchants to refine raw sugar brought over from the West Indies. It was one of two refineries in the city at the time. It closed in 1798, and was adapted to other uses. The warehouse to the west appears to have been part of the complex. This shows the buildings from the south east. The refinery is on the right, separated from the warehouse on the left by Sugarhouse Lane. The refinery building is typical, with its multi-storey construction, allowing materials to be transferred by gravity down the building as purification proceeded. After the closure of the refinery in 1798 it was used for a time as a provision preserving works by James Moir & Sons, pioneers of the canning of meat and fish. The warehouse in this view probably passed into separate use after 1798. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/4/13

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/717819

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