View from WSW showing SSW fronts of warehouses

Description View from WSW showing SSW fronts of warehouses

Date 13/10/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 770359

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Warehouses, Nos 61-5 Commercial Street, Edinburgh This shows the buildings from the south-west. The regularity of the massing and detailing of these buildings is striking, though they are by no means identical. The building in the centre is externally unaltered. These warehouses were occupied as whisky bonds by Macdonald & Muir in 1970. Macdonald & Muir were whisky blenders and owners of Glenmorangie Distillery in Tain. They occupied a large proportion of this long range of warehouses until the 1990s. The company has now changed its name to Glenmorangie plc. These warehouses have now been converted to other uses. These warehouses are in the middle of a series of such buildings built to serve the East Old Docks, designed by John Rennie and built in 1800-6. These warehouses were built in about 1810, and designed by John Paterson, resident engineer at Leith Docks. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/60/31

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/770359

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap