View from ESE showing S fronts of works and part of ballroom complex

Description View from ESE showing S fronts of works and part of ballroom complex

Date 8/12/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 784513

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Leith Engine Works, Nos 1-3 Mill Lane, Edinburgh This shows the Mill Lane frontage of the works from the south-east. The two-storeyed building probably housed the light machine shops. In 1970 they were occupied by the Scottish Insulation Co. The entrance on the right led to a wood-clad workshop probably built in the 1880s or 1890s. Hawthorns of Leith built, among others, the first locomotives in South Africa, and a number of industrial locomotives. One of the latter, built in 1865, is now on display in the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, and is the oldest surviving Scottish-built locomotive in Scotland. This works has been demolished. This works was either bought or built by R & W Hawthorn of Newcastle for erecting the parts of locomotives built at their Newcastle works. It had its own wharf on the upper harbour of Leith. It was sold in about 1850 to Hawthorns & Co, who continued to build locomotives until the 1880s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/69/7

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