View from ENE showing NNW front

Description View from ENE showing NNW front

Date 1979

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

Catalogue Number SC 792554

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Quayside Mills, Quayside Street, Edinburgh, from north-east This view from the north-east, taken in 1979, shows the Quayside Street frontage of the mills. The lead-covered wooden steeple belonged to the manse, and is typical of mid- to late 17th- and early 18th-century Scots architecture. The inclined metal box was for sliding sacks down on to lorries. This complex remained in use as a mill until the late 1980s. It then lay empty for several years before the demolition of later parts and the refurbishing of the church, manse and tenement by Simpson & Brown, architects, as offices and flats. The practice now have their own office in the complex. These mills were built up over a long period, and incorporated a number of older buildings, including an early 18th-century tenement, a later warehouse, and the remains of the North Leith Church and Manse, rebuilt in 1595 and in 1736, and converted into a granary in 1825 after the completion of a new church. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CTH120

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