Edinburgh, 28 Beaverbank Place

Date 2 October 2012

Event ID 929201

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

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Charles Laing and Sons Ltd specialise in conservation ironwork and brass founding. Laing's is housed in a former skin works or tannery and has been a brass and iron foundry since 1942. From about 1920, and until 1942, the company was located at a different site to the west of the present works.

The original tannery buildings are in evidence and are now used as the furnace room, mould making and casting area, cast dressing (or finishing) area and core making area. Later additions to the original tannery from the 1940s are also clearly visible on the south and to the north. These are used as pattern stores and mould box making up areas for smaller castings. A lade runs along the north boundary of the works.

Information from RCAHMS (MMD) and Andrew Laing (present owner of Charles Laing and Sons Ltd and grandson of founder of the company), 2 October 2012