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Edinburgh, Gorgie Road, Gorgie Mills, J And G Cox Ltd, Glue And Gelatine Manufacturer
Gelatine Works (Animal Product) (19th Century), Glue Factory (19th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, Gorgie Road, Gorgie Mills, J And G Cox Ltd, Glue And Gelatine Manufacturer
Classification Gelatine Works (Animal Product) (19th Century), Glue Factory (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Mr Robert Cox's Trust, Gorgie Park Estate
Canmore ID 209717
Site Number NT27SW 3428
NGR NT 2255 7203
NGR Description Centred NT 2255 7203
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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Ordnance Survey licence number AC0000807262. All rights reserved.
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SC 709208
Map showing the lands of Avontoun, Middlefield, Kettlestone Mill and Drum belonging to Robert Blair Esq. Scanned image of E 21775 CN.
Records of Cowie and Seaton, architects, Edinburgh, Scotland
1793
© Courtesy of HES (Cowie and Seaton Collection)
SC 710599
Interior View showing air pump of Yaryan evaporator (by Mirrlees Watson 1903)
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710606
Interior View showing ammonia compressors (by Sterne)
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710619
View showing high washer
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712927
Interior View showing part of 250 kw Belliss and Morcom and Bruce Peebles alternator set
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712965
Interior View showing part of Belliss and Morcom and Bruce Peebles alternator set
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712968
Interior View showing part of Belliss and Morcom and Bruce Peebles alternator set
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712992
View from NNW showing NW and NE fronts of offices
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710590
View from S showing WSW front of old drying house
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710593
Interior View showing old pestle and mortar which is used for glue crushing
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710594
Interior View showing old pestle and mortar which is used for glue crushing
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712911
Interior View showing Kestner evaporator
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712918
Interior View showing jacketted pans by Low and Duff, engineers, Dundee
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 1100779
Interior view of Cox's Gelatine and glue factory, Gorgie Road, Edinburgh, with a man bagging gelatine sheets.
Collection of photographs by George Chrystal and Francis Maxwell Chrystal, photographers, Edinburgh,
1900
© Courtesy of HES (Francis M Chrystal Collection)
DP 043812
Plan showing the lands of Avontoun, Middlefield, Kettlestone Mill and Drum belonging to Robert Blair Esq.
Records of Cowie and Seaton, architects, Edinburgh, Scotland
6/1793
© Courtesy of HES (Cowie and Seaton Collection)
DP 417967
Standing Building Survey photograph, Gorgie Mill detail view of store room interior, 396-410 Gorgie Road, Edinburgh
Records from Headland Archaeology Ltd, archaeologists, Edinburgh, Scotland
7/10/2014
© Headland Archaeology Ltd. Courtesy of HES
SC 710588
Interior View showing old drying house
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710591
Interior View showing glue stamping machine
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710600
Interior View showing Yaryan evaporator (by Mirrlees Watson 1903)
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710603
Interior View showing gelatine vats
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712912
Interior View showing gelatine pans
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712915
Interior View showing Blair evaporator
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712962
Interior View showing Belliss and Morcom and Bruce Peebles alternator set
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712972
Interior View showing glue extraction plant
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712976
Interior View showing Loudon drilling machine
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712982
Interior View showing shaper
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712990
General view looking S
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 709183
Glue water tower. Plans, sections and elevations. Scanned image of E 21771 CN.
Records of Cowie and Seaton, architects, Edinburgh, Scotland
1947
© Courtesy of HES (Cowie and Seaton Collection)
SC 710595
Interior View showing glue testing machine (by John White of Auchtermuchty)
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710605
Interior View showing glue crushers and mixers
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710608
Interior View showing weir pumps (LHS 1941 and RHS 1929)
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710609
Interior View showing 300 kw Belliss and Morcom and Bruce Peebles alternator set
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710611
Interior View showing 250 kw Belliss and Morcom and Bruce Peebles alternator set
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710617
View showing low washer
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712910
Interior View showing Yaryan evaporator
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712917
Interior View showing cold end of glue cooler
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712919
Interior View showing glue crusher, mixer and bagger
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712959
Interior View showing Belliss and Morcom and Bruce Peebles alternator set
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712983
Interior View showing power saw
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 1133046
Edinburgh, Gorgie Road, Cox's Gelatine and glue factory. General view of the exterior of the factory showing a white-washed bottom storey.
1900
© RCAHMS
DP 417925
Standing Building Survey photograph, 398 Gorgie Road general view of first floor kitchen, 396-410 Gorgie Road, Edinburgh
Records from Headland Archaeology Ltd, archaeologists, Edinburgh, Scotland
7/10/2014
© Headland Archaeology Ltd. Courtesy of HES
DP 418014
Standing Building Survey photograph, Gorgie Mill general view of stone wall fronting Gorgie Road, 396-410 Gorgie Road, Edinburgh
Records from Headland Archaeology Ltd, archaeologists, Edinburgh, Scotland
7/10/2014
© Headland Archaeology Ltd. Courtesy of HES
SC 709217
Glue water tower. Elevation of kettle house and glue water tower. Scanned image of E 21778.
Records of Cowie and Seaton, architects, Edinburgh, Scotland
1951
© Courtesy of HES (Cowie and Seaton Collection)
SC 710607
Interior View showing Lancashire boilers (by Penman 1931)
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710613
Interior View showing advertisement for gelatine
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712913
Interior View showing hot end of glue cooler
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712923
Interior View showing 150 kw Belliss and Morcom and Bruce Peebles alternator set
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712925
Interior View showing 250 kw Belliss and Morcom and Bruce Peebles alternator set with part of 150 kw Belliss and Morcom and Bruce Peebles alternator set in foreground
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712981
Interior View showing pipe-screwing machine
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712985
View from SW showing WSW front of water tank with low washers in foreground
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712991
View from WSW showing SW front of gatehouse
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710597
Interior View showing Blair evaporator (1952)
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710601
Interior View showing pump of Kestner evaporator
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710604
Interior View showing glue crushers and mixers
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710615
View looking N showing liming pits and acid tanks
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712922
Interior View showing boiler
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712963
Interior View showing Belliss and Morcom and Bruce Peebles alternator set
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712977
Interior View showing lathe
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712980
Interior View showing small lathe
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712984
View from SW showing WSW and SSE fronts of water tank with low washers in foreground
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712986
View from SW showing high washers with part of hut and acid tanks in background
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712987
View from WSW showing curved WSW front of S acid tank with part of hut on left and water tank on right
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
DP 144967
Advertisement for J&G Cox Ltd, Gorgie Mills, Edinburgh and Arthur Bell & Sons Old Scotch Whisky, Perth
General Collection
1905
© Courtesy of HES. Illustration from Scotland's Industrial Souvenir, vol.2, 1905
SC 710589
Interior View showing roof structure of old drying house
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710592
Interior View showing concentration and cooling house
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710610
Interior View showing 150 kw Belliss and Morcom and Bruce Peebles alternator set
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710618
View showing low washers
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712926
Interior View showing part of 250 kw Belliss and Morcom and Bruce Peebles alternator set
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712969
Interior View showing Belliss and Morcom and Bruce Peebles alternator set
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712970
Interior View showing gelatine plant
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712988
View from WSW showing curved WSW front of N acid tank
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712989
View from S showing high washers
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710596
Interior View showing hot end of glue cooling band
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710598
Interior View showing Kestner evaporator (1913)
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710602
Interior View showing air pump of Yaryan evaporator (by Mirrlees Watson 1903)
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710612
Interior View showing glue stamp
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710614
View looking NNW showing liming pits
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 710620
View showing settling tanks
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/7/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712909
Interior View showing Yaryan evaporator
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712916
Interior view showing cold end of glue cooler, J And G Cox Ltd Glue And Gelatine Manufacturer, Gorgie Road, Edinburgh, in 1969.
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712920
Interior View showing glue mixer and bagger
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712921
Interior View showing Mr Laing and Mr Scott outside compressor house
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712973
View from NW showing NNW and WSW fronts of old drying house
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 712975
Interior View showing Loudon drilling machine
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
6/8/1969
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 1133088
Edinburgh, Gorgie Road, Cox's Gelatine and glue factory. General view of the exterior of the factory showing a white-washed bottom storey, and a pump.
Collection of photographs by George Chrystal and Francis Maxwell Chrystal, photographers, Edinburgh,
1900
© Courtesy of HES (Francis M Chrystal Collection)
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT27SW 3428.00 Centred 2255 7203
NT27SW 3428.01 2252 7213 Gate Keeper's Cottage
NT27SW 3428.02 2249 7210 Old Store
NT27SW 3428.03 22508 72118 398 Gorgie Road
Standing Building Recording (1 November 2014)
Headland Archaeology was commissioned by 3DReid Architects to undertake a programme of historic building recording at 396-410 Gorgie Road, Edinburgh to inform a planning application (11/02827/FUL) for proposed student housing on the site. The building recording focussed on the upstanding remains of the late 18th or early 19th century Gorgie Mills, originally a grain mill though modified and reused for other functions. Building upon earlier desk-based assessment and trial trenching, a broad chronology has been constructed, showing significant periods of change throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
Information from Jürgen Van Wessel (Headland Archaeology ltd) November 2014. OASIS ID: headland1-193632
