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View from SW showing WSW and SSE fronts
SC 784462
Description View from SW showing WSW and SSE fronts
Date 8/12/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 784462
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Chemical Factory, Nos 10-12 Ballantyne Road, Edinburgh This shows the works from the south-west. This is the Ballantyne Road frontage, and is probably the oldest part of the complex. The bulk of the buildings are on ground to the left sloping down to the Water of Leith. This works was disused by 1970, and was demolished in the 1970s. The site has been developed for housing. The mass-marketing of pharmaceuticals and other chemical products has eliminated small producers like this. This works was probably built in the late 19th century. In 1945 it was occupied by Harkness, Beaumont & Co Ltd, wholesale manufacturing chemists. This description of their business suggests that they were packaging chemicals for retailers. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/69/10
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/784462
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