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The Goad maps just published by @natlibscotmaps are beautiful works of the commercial mapmaker's art. But my favourite thing is the exquisite detail they record. They were made for insurance purposes so catalogued the uses and in cases construction of premises.
Lauchlan Rose's Lime Juice Warehouse, for instance. We all knew that concentrated juice was invented in Leith, right?
Perhaps one of the more sinister buildings in the city. Part of the "Corporation Slaughter House". (As an aside, CSH did a great Peel Set back in '77)
Pig Lairs and Cow Houses.
Bacon? That'll be the 1st floor. Flour? 2nd. Or is it grain you are after?
British Wine for British People.
An actual floor plan of the mystical Junction Place power station.
Or the Tollcross tramway power station while it was still serving the cable-hauled network.
Rick Witter & Paul Banks met in Leith in 1906. The rest, as they say, is musical history.
