View from E showing part of Commercial Street frontage
SC 770292
Description View from E showing part of Commercial Street frontage
Date 13/10/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 770292
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Leith Flour Mills (A & R Tod), Commercial Street, Edinburgh This shows the Commercial Street frontage of the complex from the north-east. In the centre is the mill building, with part of the boiler house to the left, and the granary to the right. The top section of the mill is a 20th-century addition. 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 it principal frontage to Commercial Street. It latterly belonged to A & R Tod Ltd, millers and corn merchants. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/60/24
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