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General view from N showing WNW and NNE fronts
SC 733453
Description General view from N showing WNW and NNE fronts
Date 9/7/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 733453
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Leith Signal Tower (Windmill Stump), Tower Street, Edinburgh This tower was constructed as a windmill in 1686 to designs by Robert Mylne. Different accounts state that it was used an oil mill, or as a mill for crushing lead ore for export to Holland. It was later used as a signal tower, its top being battlemented in about 1805, three years after a tenement was built on to it. This shows the building from the north-west, with the battlemented top constructed in about 1805, and the 1802 tenement on the right. To the left and right are the façades of an engineering works which wrapped round the tower and tenement. When the tenement was added the rooms in the tower were integrated with the flats next door. The engineering works was in 1945 occupied by Laidlaw, Drew and Co Ltd, combustion engineers, who specialised in making oil burners but was in 1970 occupied by a firm of ship repairers. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/27/16
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