View from E showing chimney above boiler house and SSE and NNE fronts

Description View from E showing chimney above boiler house and SSE and NNE fronts

Date 13/10/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 770293

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Leith Flour Mills (A & R Tod), Commercial Street, Edinburgh This shows the Commercial Street (right) and Prince Regent Street frontages of the complex from the north-east. In the centre is the boiler house with its chimney. To the right are the mill and granary, and to the left are warehouses. 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 H35/70/60/25

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/770293

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap