View from SSW showing WSW and SSE fronts of warehouse block

Description View from SSW showing WSW and SSE fronts of warehouse block

Date 13/10/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 770290

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Leith Flour Mills (A & R Tod), Commercial Street, Edinburgh This shows the North Junction Street (left) and Prince Regent Street frontages of the complex, with the boiler house chimney to the right. The offices are in the tenement on the left. The building on the corner is a warehouse, as is the one to the right. This was the largest flour mill in Leith until the construction of the Chancelot Mills by the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society in the 1890s. The Leith Mills may have been built to make flour with grindstones, but were certainly latterly roller mills. They had closed by 1970, and were demolished soon after. This large flour milling complex was probably built in the mid-19th century. It was on a triangular site, bounded by Commercial Street, North Junction Street and Prince Regent Street, with its principal frontage to Commercial Street. It belonged to A & R Tod Ltd, millers and corn merchants. In the 1970s it was owned by Rank's Flour Mills who had the Caledonia Mill, Western Harbour, Leith Docks. Animal feedstuffs were produced by Tod's Mill. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/60/20

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