View from E showing SSE and part of ENE fronts of warehouse no 5

Description View from E showing SSE and part of ENE fronts of warehouse no 5

Date 8/12/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 771970

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Bonnington Bonds, Bonnington Road, Edinburgh This shows the warehouse block on Bonnington Road, from the south-east, with Breadalbane Street to the right. This was built as the maltings for the Leith Distillery, probably when it was converted into a grain whisky distillery in 1835. In 1970 it was in use as a bonded warehouse. 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. This building was converted into offices in the 1980s. 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 H35/70/69/34

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/771970

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