View from E showing SSE front of warehouse with part of fertiliser works in foreground

Description View from E showing SSE front of warehouse with part of fertiliser works in foreground

Date 18/1/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 772903

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Mills, Warehouse, Nos 10-12 West Bowling Green Street, Edinburgh This shows two warehouses in West Bowling Green Street, used to store products of the mills. The four-storeyed block probably dated from the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society takeover, and the one on the right to the 1930s. The latter may be of reinforced concrete construction. The society had already built a large flour mill nearby - Chancelot Mills - and so had no need to make flour here. Their main reason for acquiring this complex was to secure supplies of oatmeal - 700 bags a week in 1897. The mills were disused in 1970, and have since been demolished. This large complex was purchased by the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society in 1897 from John Inglis & Sons, oatmeal millers, who also had roller mills designed for flour production, but then used for semolina and other coarse milled wheat products. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/3/6

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/772903

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