View from ENE showing NNE and ESE fronts of warehouse and NNE front of 1 Granton Square

Description View from ENE showing NNE and ESE fronts of warehouse and NNE front of 1 Granton Square

Date 13/10/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 770239

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Warehouse, West Harbour Road, Edinburgh This warehouse is opposite the entrance to the harbour, and was probably built in about 1860. It may have been built as a grain store. The train is of oil tanks, and is on an extension of the original Edinburgh, Leith & Granton line. Granton Harbour developed as the ferry terminal for Fife, with both passenger and train ferry services, a function it lost with the opening of the Forth Bridge in 1890. From the late 19th century until the 1960s it was also a port for deep-sea trawler fishing. Neither of these trades called for extensive warehousing. Granton Harbour was laid out by the Duke of Buccleuch from 1834, and was designed by Robert Stevenson and Burgess & Walker of London. It was completed in 1844. Originally intended as a rival to Leith, it became a railway harbour in 1846, with the opening of the Edinburgh, Leith & Granton Railway. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/60/5

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/770239

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap