View from SSE showing SW and part of SE fronts
SC 776985
Description View from SSE showing SW and part of SE fronts
Date 15/3/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 776985
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content McDonald Road Electric Power Station, McDonald Road, Edinburgh This shows the McDonald Road frontage of the complex from the south, with the generating hall in the centre. It is steel-framed, with a sandstone ashlar frontage, and yellow brick side walls. To its left are two-storeyed offices for the station. This power station continued in use until after World War II, and was still intact in 1971, when part of it was occupied by Inveresk Stationery Ltd. As can be seen from the steelwork embedded in the south wall it was designed with the possibility of expansion in mind. This station was built in 1898-9 for Edinburgh Corporation Electricity Department, and designed by the City Engineer, John Cooper. It was built to complement the existing power station in Dewar Place, and supplied electricity to domestic, commercial and industrial consumers, and for street lighting. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/15/32
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