View from SE showing ENE and SSE fronts of warehouse no 1
SC 771969
Description View from SE showing ENE and SSE fronts of warehouse no 1
Date 8/12/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 771969
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Bonnington Bonds, Bonnington Road, Edinburgh This shows one of the warehouse blocks, probably built after the Leith Distillery had closed. The stable in the foreground was probably part of the distillery. In the left background is part of the brick building of the sugar refinery, with its roof-top water tank. This complex was in full use in 1970, but when the Distillers' Co Ltd concentrated its warehousing in a major new mechanised warehouse complex near Cambus, Clackmannanshire, in the 1980s it was closed. Some of the buildings are being converted into flats. This complex incorporated a late 19th-century sugar refinery, the remains of the Leith Distillery, and purpose-built bonded warehouses. The distillery was founded in about 1798, and closed in about 1853, though the warehouses continued in use. Latterly it was owned by the Distillers Co Ltd. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/69/35
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