View from SE showing SSE front

Description View from SE showing SSE front

Date 9/7/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 733489

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Quayside Mills, Quayside Street, Leith, Edinburgh These buildings have a very complex history. They incorporate parts of a church founded in about 1493, and subsequently rebuilt, as well as the 17th century manse with its wooden spire of 1675. After a new North Leith parish church was opened in 1816 the complex was converted into grain mills. This shows the mills from the south-east, looking across the Water of Leith. The 1675 steeple is on the right, with in front of it the kiln used for drying grain before milling in the three-storey and attic block to the left. To the left of the milling range are two granary blocks, the one on the left late 19th century. The mills were enlarged and adapted on many occasions. They were still in operation in 1970, but closed in the late 1980s. The manse and some of the other older buildings were sensitively converted into offices and flats by Simpson and Brown, architects, in the early 1990s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/28/33

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/733489

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap