Archaeology Notes

Event ID 713401

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/713401

Location formerly cited as centred NT 22437 77079.

NT27NW 20.01 NT 22612 76990 Fitting Shop

NT27NW 20.02 NT 22336 76753 Control House

NT27NW 20.03 NT 22428 76839 Store Block

NT27NW 20.04 NT 22638 76845 Railway Station

NT27NW 20.05 NT 22437 77079 Gate Lodge

NT27NW 20.06 NT 22441 77091 No. 1 Gasholder

Gas Works [NAT] (at NT 2213 7688)

Gasholders [NAT] (at NT 2252 7706)

Gasholders [NAT] (at NT 2201 7698)

OS 1:10,000 map, 1987.

RCAHMS REFERENCE

76 photograph albums containing progress photographs of every aspect of architectural and technical construction undertaken by the Company at Granton including the opening ceremony etc 1899-1931.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

NT 2231 7696 Prior to residential redevelopment, linear evaluation trenching in July and August 2002 on two areas within the site of the former Granton Gasworks failed to uncover significant archaeological features or artefacts.

A programme of standing building recording was required as a condition of planning consent on two buildings to the N of the site: the Pump House and Meter House. The two buildings were part of the first major construction of works which began in 1899 and were of a balanced Edwardian design in a red terracotta brick and steel-framed construction. The programme of building recording produced elevation drawings and a written and photographic record prior to their demolition. Access to the interior of these buildings was denied for health and safety reasons. (AOC 3479, AOC 3518)

Archive to be deposited in the NMRS.

Sponsor: Lattice Property Holdings.

Martin Cook and D Sproat (AOC) 2002.