View from ESE showing part of S front (Baltic Street front) of gasworks with corn exchange in background

Description View from ESE showing part of S front (Baltic Street front) of gasworks with corn exchange in background

Date 9/7/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 733437

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 part of the frontage of the works to Baltic Street. The tall building is the former gas-holder house, the largest surviving example of its type in Scotland in the 1960s. To the left is the Corn Exchange of 1860-63, designed by Peddie and Kinnear, architects. 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 H35/70/27/1

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/733437

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