View from E showing ENE and SSE fronts of office with mill buildings in background

Description View from E showing ENE and SSE fronts of office with mill buildings in background

Date 23/6/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 733293

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content East Bridge Flour Mills, The Path, Kirkcaldy, Fife These mills, belonging in 1970 to Robert Hutchison and Co Ltd, was originally a whisky distillery, founded in 1795 by Robert Speirs. It operated until 1848, and was then converted into a flour mill. The extent of the survival of buildings from the distillery was not clear in 1970, but the offices are almost certainly from it. This shows the complex from the south-east, with the offices in the centre, and the main milling complex behind and to the right. The small circular building to the left was probably a horse mill used in connection with the distillery, and the building beside may also have been part of it. Though originally converted into a flour mill, this complex was in 1970 being used to mill provender for animal feeding-stuffs as well as flour. It was still operating in 2001. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/23/30

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