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"Fountainbridge brewery canal site to get revamp"
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Posted 9 years ago #
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Our Capital Development Team have asked me to contact you about the following event. Please feel free to forward this information to anyone who might be interested.
Edinburgh Printmakers
Castle Mill WorksPublic Consultation Meeting - Edinburgh Printmakers Castle Mill Works Redevelopment
Thursday 25th June - doors open 7pm for 7.30pm start.
Kings Church
Side Hall
104 Gilmore Place
Edinburgh
EH3 9PLAll are welcome to attend an open consultation meeting regarding Edinburgh Printmakers plans for the redevelopment of Castle Mill Works, the site of the former HQ of the North British Rubber Company, in Fountainbridge.
The event offers a chance to meet the Captial Development Team, see and hear from the Design Team about plans for the building, and give your feedback.
Doors open at 7pm with a short presentation from the development team at 7.30pm, followed by questions and conversation.
Tea, coffee and cakes provided.
All welcome.
If you need more information about the event please email me at: communitylearning@edinburghprintmakers.co.uk or phone 0131 557 2479.
For more details on the
Castle Mill Works
redevelopment project please
visit our website:
http://www.edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/Capital-ProjectPosted 8 years ago # -
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Tea, coffee and cakes provided.
All welcome.
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Sounds like a CCE night out!
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"Congratulations to Edinburgh Printmakers who have received a £500,000 grant from Historic Scotland - one of 8 sites around the country - to increase community engagement around historic sites. This will allow a makeover of the old Rubber Factory building and take the project another stage further in transforming this old handsome building into an exciting arts centre."
from the fountain bridge canalised initiative Facebook page
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Was asked by tourist on bike at top of gardiner's crescent if this was fountainbridge. I said yes but there was no fountain or bridge.
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According to the Edinburgh Evening Courant newspaper in 1774 the name derived from the Foullbridge Well of "singularly sweet water"
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The original bridge was approximately where the traffic lights are at the top of Gardeners Cresc. It was relocated and is now known as the Leamington Lift Bridge.
Not sure on the fountain bit, but might have something to do with an old spring, which formed a stream called the Lochrin Burn. It still runs under Fountainbridge in a tunnel.
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@Fountainbridge
As far as I can establish from poring over the old maps, the Lochrin burn (or Dalry burn) was the drain for the Boroughloch. It certainly ran right into the middle of the Lochrin Distillery (where the Cameo cinema now is). It was progressively culverted up and built over, but I don't suppose much drains into it now.
From there the approximate line was under tenements of Thornybauk and under the new student prison to the current basin. It ran through the easten end of the Fountain Brewery site as far as Gilmore Park before turning north and heading towards Dalry.
It's worth noting that the name Fountain Bridge seems to predate the canal and therefore the lift bridge and the original location of the Fountain Brewery was to the west where the cinema now is. There was a dwelling established in 1817 (Kirwood town plan) at the foot of Gilmore Park (where the tenement now is) called Fountain Court, with a well marked outside it.
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Earlier etymological discussion about Lochrin and its environs:
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3985&page=6#post-120936
Edinburgh Corporation's "History and Derivation of Edinburgh Street Names" says that the Bridge was over the Dalry Burn at Lochrin, and that there was a Fountain House, later Greig's Engineering Works, at 28/30 Dundee St. But the eponymous fountain is described in the book as 'a famous perennial' and was near Fountain House.
It also notes that Bailie Alexander Gray's brewery was on land in the Barony of Dalry, 'beside the ditch conveying the water from the Burrow Loch to the bridge at Bailie Gray's commonly called Lochrin Bridge.'
The Scotttish Post Office Directory 1886 notes:
Greig, John, & Sons, engineers, ironfouuders, millwrights, and manufacturers of printing, bookbinding, tobacco, rubber, and other machinery, Fountainhouse works, 28 and 30 Dundee Street.
Fountain House foundry was located on the land now between Drysdale Road and McEwan Square, and the House appears to have been Brandfield House in earlier times.
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Work will get underway next year on the derelict landmark, which was placed on Scotland’s “buildings at risk register” in 2010 - five years after the demise of the Fountain Brewery. Temporary artworks are planned during the building works to reflect its history.
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Slightly off topic
I found Joseph Black's house at 13 Sylvan Place. Very nice Private residence but you can nosey a bit without intruding as it is up a muddy lane off sylvan place. Look at the garden through the gate, admire the pre Georgian architecture, read the plaque as there is some info in it I have not divulged. Just after number 12 no less when heading up from the meadows. I was looking for a university dept. Which ended up being a basement location next to sick kids A and E
Joseph Black identified carbon dioxide in the 1700s
Posted 7 years ago # -
The house opposite with the double garages was for sale recently.
Posted 7 years ago # -
"Slightly off topic"(?)
"Joseph Black identified carbon dioxide"
So, connection to brewery?
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Very interesting Gembo.
You can have a neb inside too thanks to this, now expired, property schedule:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-15989307.html
I suspect it must feel a bit hemmed in by the tenements although the garden photo manages to avoid that sensation.
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@chdot, sorry perhaps I should have said
NOt completely off topic. Old bits of Edinburgh such as was being spoken of a bit further upstream at the fountain bridge
CB, set slightly at an angle to the tenements on both sides so not totally hemmed in. Worth a neb, will check the spec, I am guessing price was a bit beyond my means.
All rooms painted white does slightly suggest dingy but the photos look bright enough. Liked the fire places - said four bedrooms but maybe the fourth was in the studio?
If sick kids does go to little France might be a fair bit of building in that street?
Enclosed garden has big wrought iron gate to keep out drunk students. Also is Georgian Joe Black was born 1728 But did not live in the house until after it was built, lived in by the provost who would not give BPC the keys of Edinburgh etc?.
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But did not live in the house until after it was built
Even for such an eminent scientist, I don't think we should hold this against him.
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Still OT
"If sick kids does go to little France might be a fair bit of building in that street?"
SK is moving.
Lots of bids in for developing buildings, so lots of building work but unlikely to be many new/extra ones(?).
Sciennes Primary is determined to get road shut so that they can get a bigger playground (maintaining walk/cycle transit).
Slight possibility of some of the road space in front of SK being de-cared too.
If only the SK Meadows Appartments luxury development could be carfree...
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Ah sorry ChDot, should have said not entirely off topic compared to my regular posts.
Frenchy, yeah, scientist , clever but no time machine like Rick and morty.
Queen Anne followed her sister's man King Billy, but that was end of the Stuart's. 1714 Her second cuz, George I came in pretty early in 18th century so joe black's house most def Georgian
Sick kids going in 2018 for sure they have just resisted moving for more than a decade.
Quartermile 2 or Qurtermile and The Pit? (Quatermass) inevitable?
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road space in front of SK being de-cared
I had to read that three times. Thought someone was going to stop caring for the road.
Joseph Black identified carbon dioxide
I spent many happy years in the Joseph Black Building. He was born in Bordeaux, so CO<sub>2</sub> is technically an EU plot.
Posted 7 years ago # -
See also magnesium and latent heat.
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Yeah, those magnesium atoms, coming over 'ere with their latent heat, taking our chlorine atoms.
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RESIDENTS living near Edinburgh’s Sick Kids Hospital are planning to launch a potential community buy-out of the site.
They say they want to ensure that when the hospital moves out next year, the use of the land includes healthcare provision, quality affordable housing and infrastructure for community enterprise.
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Posted 7 years ago # -
In via email; I think related to this thread:
Hi there
About 4 years ago there was interest in the whereabouts of the culveted Lochrin Burn at Fountainbridge. Do you know of any local historians who are following the new excavations to E and W in case traces can be found?
Thanks much
Sarah
Anyone have an inside track, I did notice that Gilmore Park was closed, and a big hole was dug, presumably this is in preparation for the next phase of Fountainbridge development.
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