General view looking WNW showing S front (Baltic Street front) of gasworks with part of tenement and shop on left

Description General view looking WNW showing S front (Baltic Street front) of gasworks with part of tenement and shop on left

Date 9/7/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 733436

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Edinburgh & Leith Gas Works, Nos 1-5 Baltic Street, Leith, Edinburgh This works was established in 1835 to supply gas to the burgh of Leith. It was a large works for the time, and had its gas-holders in a tall masonry holder house. This works was supplanted by the Granton Gas Works, opened in 1898 by the Edinburgh and Leith Gas Commissioners. This shows the frontage of the works to Baltic Street, looking past the boundary wall of the former Leith Glass Works. The tall building is the former gas-holder house, and beyond it is the Corn Exchange. After the gas works closed in the late 1890s the site was largely cleared, and was then used as a timber yard and sawmill. In 1937 it was occupied by Garland and Roger Ltd, timber importers, merchants and sawmillers. It was still used as a timber yard in 1970. The gas holder house has since been cut down. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/27/43

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/733436

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap