View from NNW showing detail of NNW front of N block

Description View from NNW showing detail of NNW front of N block

Date 18/1/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 773066

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Chancelot Roller Flour Mills, Dalmeny Road, Edinburgh This shows the main entrance in the centre of the Dalmeny Street frontage, with the name of the society in the frieze. The building was designed in a kind of French Renaissance style, but an idiosyncratic variant. 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 H35/71/3/31

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap