View from WNW showing NNW and WSW fronts of N block tower

Description View from WNW showing NNW and WSW fronts of N block tower

Date 18/1/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 773070

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Chancelot Roller Flour Mills, Dalmeny Road, Edinburgh This shows the top of the clock-tower from the north-west. It was originally intended to have a tall slated platform roof with cast-iron cresting round the top, but this was probably never built. The tower also probably contained a water tank for a sprinkler system of fire control. 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 H35/71/3/29

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/773070

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap