View from WNW showing WSW front of no 36 warehouse block

Description View from WNW showing WSW front of no 36 warehouse block

Date 15/3/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 777057

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Bonnington Tannery, Newhaven Road, Edinburgh This shows part of the Newhaven Road frontage of the complex, which was disused by 1971. This four-storeyed block is probably of late 19th-century date, and may well have housed the currying part of the business, which treated the tanned leather with oils and waxes. Like most businesses of the type this large tannery came under pressure from the replacement of leather by rubber and synthetic materials from the 1950s on, and closed in about 1970. The site has now been cleared and redeveloped, retaining part of the front wall of the 1879 block as part of a warehouse. This tannery was founded in 1879, and covered a large area to the north-east of Bonnington Road. In 1937 it belonged to David Callender & Sons Ltd, tanners and curriers, who, in 1953, were making leather soles for shoes, one of six Scottish firms engaged in this business. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/15/20

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/777057

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap