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View from SW showing WNW front of N block
SC 733440
Description View from SW showing WNW front of N block
Date 9/7/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 733440
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 frontage of the trading hall to Constitution Street, with its tall round-headed windows and sculptured frieze by John Rhind, depicting putti engaged in various activities associated with the grain trade. Inside there is a large unobstructed space, used for storage by 1970. 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 H35/70/27/3
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