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Edinburgh, Salamander Street, Edinburgh And Leith Glass Works
Glass Works (19th Century) - (20th Century), Steam Engine (19th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, Salamander Street, Edinburgh And Leith Glass Works
Classification Glass Works (19th Century) - (20th Century), Steam Engine (19th Century)
Canmore ID 153299
Site Number NT27NE 649
NGR NT 27545 76417
NGR Description Centred NT 27545 756417
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/153299
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT27NE 649 27545 76417
The Edinburgh and Leith Glassworks were situated between Salamander Street and the North British Railway, Leith Branch railway. On the Edinburgh and its Environs edition of the OS 1:1056 scale map (surveyed 1852), the glassworks are shown with four cones.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), July 2002
Edinburgh, Edinburgh and Leith Glassworks.
Site now demolished.
NMRS REFERENCE.
SRO
GD 112/15 Vouchers of Factor's Accounts 1643-1797.
476/60 Account for bottles etc. with a vignette showing the glass houses with four bottle kilns and two chimneys, 1796.
Trial Trench (7 July 2016 - 7 August 2016)
NT 2753 7642 An evaluation was carried out, July – August 2016, in advance of potential development on a site between Salamander Street and Baltic Street. The evaluation trenches provided evidence for multiple phases of structures associated with the 18th-century Edinburgh and Leith Glassworks and the 19th-century Edinburgh and Leith Gasworks, including foundation walls and associated interior structures and surfaces. The work demonstrated that the level of preservation across the site is generally very good, with the only truncation identified from concrete footings of mid-20th century sheds.
Archive: NRHE (intended)
Funder: Travis Perkins PLC
Anthony Taylor – Headland Archaeology Ltd
(Source: DES, Volume 17)
Archaeological Evaluation (27 November 2018 - 9 December 2018)
Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd undertook a programme of archaeological trial trenching works on the site of the former Edinburgh and Leith Glassworks located between Salamander Street and Bath Road, Edinburgh. The work was undertaken to support a planning application.
Eight trenches were excavated across the site. Archaeological features were identified in all trenches, at varying depths. Trenches targeting the bases of the Glassworks cones identified walls, floors and internal structures for three of the four known cones. Other trenches identified the foundations of buildings with internal floor surfaces, paved yard areas and cobbled roadways. In general, the preservation of sub-surface remains was good. Concrete footings of 20th century sheds truncated the archaeology in places.
Information from Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Archive: NRHE (intended)
Funder: BDW Trading Ltd
Josh Gaunt - Headland
(Source: DES Vol 20)
Standing Building Recording (23 October 2019 - 7 February 2020)
NT 2753 7642 A historic building survey was undertaken, on 23 October 2019, of a boundary wall at Bath Road and Salamander Street in Leith, formerly part of the 19th-century Edinburgh and Leith Glassworks, which have long since been removed. The works have been completed as a condition of planning consent for the demolition of the wall in advance of a new development.
The wall was stripped of its external render and subject to an elevation survey, which identified a number of former original and inserted openings related to the operation of the glassworks and its later uses, all of which had been blocked up to create a secure boundary wall.
Archive: NRHE
Funder: Barratt and David Wilson Homes (East) Scotland
Diana Sproat and Gemma Hudson − AOC Archaeology Group
(Source: DES Vol 21)
OASIS ID: aocarcha1-395147
Desk Based Assessment
A 16 horse power, 43 rpm, stroke: 21 1/4in. by 5 feet, Boulton and Watt sun and planet engine was ordered by Archibald Geddes and Co. glassmakers, October 1800.
Birmingham Library, Boulton and Watt Archive MS/3147/5/210.
Information from Mark Watson, HES, Conservation Directorate, 2 April 2019.