View from ESE showing NNE and part of SSE fronts of N block with part of ENE front of S block to the left

Description View from ESE showing NNE and part of SSE fronts of N block with part of ENE front of S block to the left

Date 18/1/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 773061

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Chancelot Roller Flour Mills, Dalmeny Road, Edinburgh This shows the end of the main milling range on the right. On the left is part of what was probably built as a granary to store wheat to be milled. The projecting reinforced concrete tower on the end of the granary is probably an early 20th-century addition. 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 H35/71/3/35

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/773061

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap