View from S showing SSW front of warehouse with part of sailors' home on left

Description View from S showing SSW front of warehouse with part of sailors' home on left

Date 9/7/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 733451

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Warehouse (Eagle Buildings), No 5 Tower Street, Leith, Edinburgh This store was built in about 1900 for Currie and Co, cement merchants, at a time when Portland cement was not made in Scotland, and when much of the cement used in Scotland came by sea from the Kent cement works on the Medway, or from France. This shows the frontage of the store from the south-east. The central feature, above the doorway, has the name of the building, surmounted by a sculpture of an eagle, the trademark of the company. Much of the façade is made of cement concrete, as an advertisement. When this depot was built the use of cement was increasing. Mass concrete was being used for foundations and harbour works, and cement mortar and cement render were taking over from their lime equivalents. This building was demolished in about 1990. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/27/14

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/733451

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap