View from E showing SSE front of S block and chimney

Description View from E showing SSE front of S block and chimney

Date 18/1/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 773058

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Chancelot Roller Flour Mills, Dalmeny Road, Edinburgh This shows the plainer block at the rear of the main milling range. This was probably built as a granary to store wheat to be milled. The projecting towers cover later hoists. The chimney served the boiler house that supplied steam to the engines which drove the mills. These mills, like the Regent Mills in Glasgow, also owned by the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society, closed in the 1960s, when retail cooperative societies fell out of fashion. It was demolished in the early 1970s. Had it lasted a few years longer it would probably have been converted into flats. This large and architecturally elaborate complex was built in 1892-4 by the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society to supply flour to the retail co-operative societies in the east of Scotland. When completed it produced 3,500 sacks of flour a week. It was a roller mill. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/3/36

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap