View from NNW showing part of NNW front of joinery works with part of N front of ballroom in background

Description View from NNW showing part of NNW front of joinery works with part of N front of ballroom in background

Date 10/11/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 771351

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Leith Engine Works, Mill Lane, Leith, Edinburgh This shows the works from the south-west. The L-plan masonry building on the right appears to have been the works used by R & W Hawthorn, and the timber-clad one to the left is an addition, probably of the 1880s. The private wharf can be seen in front of the latter. Hawthorns of Leith built, among others, the first locomotives in South Africa, and a number of industrial locomotives. One of the latter, built in 1865, is now on display in the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, and is the oldest surviving Scottish-built locomotive in Scotland. This works has been demolished. This works was either bought or built by R & W Hawthorn of Newcastle for erecting the parts of locomotives built at their Newcastle works. It had its own wharf on the upper harbour of Leith. It was sold in about 1850 to Hawthorns & Co, who continued to build locomotives until the 1880s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/66/21

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