View from W showing SSW fronts of warehouses

Description View from W 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 770373

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. At the end of the range is the Leith Customs House, built in 1810-12 and designed by Robert Reid. In 1970 these warehouses were occupied as whisky bonded warehouses by William Muir (Bond 9) Ltd, whisky warehousemen. They moved out in the 1980s, and these buildings have been converted to flats and offices. The Old Docks have been filled in and the site of the basins is now a car park. These warehouses are at the east end of the eastern block 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 H35/70/61/9

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