General view from SW showing S and WNW fronts
SC 733438
Description General view from SW showing S and WNW fronts
Date 9/7/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 733438
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Corn Exchange, Nos 29-35 Constitution Street, Leith, Edinburgh This building was constructed in 1860-63 to designs by Peddie and Kinnear, architects. It contains a large trading hall behind a two-storey office block. There is a prominent corner tower with a dome. In 1937 the building was the headquarters of the Incorporated Corn Trade Association of Leith. This shows the building from the south-west. The trading hall is to the left of the corner tower, with tall round-headed windows and a sculptured frieze. To the right of the exchange is the former gas-holder house of the Leith Gas Works. Leith must have had a substantial grain trade for centuries, both coastwise and from abroad. This trade must have received a considerable impetus from the repeal of the Corn Laws in the 1840s, and by the importation of maize for making grain whisky, an important Edinburgh industry. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/27/2
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