In St Andrew Street there is an extensive and substantial block of buildings called the Vaults including large vault, grain vaults, warehouses, yard and business offices, extending up St Giles Street. They were long owned as they are yet by the old respectable firm of Messrs J.G.Thomson and Co Wine and spirit merchants and agents in Scotland for the old firm of Barclay, Perkins and Co porter brewers of London. (more…)
The old stone pier of Leith was a strong structure. It was in the past a favourite walk of old Leith folk. Almost every morning betwixt nine and ten o’clock there might be seen among others Thomas Jamieson, of Jamieson and Auld, James White of Adam White and Co, Robert Strong, John Hutton of the Rope Work, James Reach of Charles Cowan and Co, Patrick Hodge etc taking their walk to the end of the pier and back again before they went to business. (more…)
The Leith Shipbuilders did a large amount of business in the past. Robert Mackenzie & Co was an extensive and well known firm and built many fine ships in its day, which traded around the World. The ships it built were of the kind that the poet Longfellow describes in his poem of “The Building of the Ship” (more…)
I just discovered this site and have been in Leith a couple of times looking for places my gggrandfather lived. My gggrandfather was a James Wallace who lived at 4 Junction Street and according to the 1841 census, had 9 children.There are no signs of the family in leith after 1844. He was in the bakery business and apparently some of his sons joined him in the business.
I am looking for old photos which may show that part of Leith on the 1800′s or any Wallace connection which may still be in that area though the family seemed to have emigrated to either Canada or America as I found, Can anyone help?
(Can I mention that the above message came from my other website at www.persevere.lineages.co.uk)
The Old firm of William Sibbald and Co were long in the West India Sugar and Rum Trade. The owned the Isabella Simpson, The Lady Forbes (Captain Gourlay), The Roselle, and Lune. Their Office was in the Kirkgate near the Lochend water pipes “Sibbald Bond” in the docks is still known. They had to give up business somewhere about 1826. (more…)
Generation No. 1
JOHN1 HALDANE (Source: LDS.) was born Abt. 1796 in Leith, and died Aft. 15 November 1871 in Aft 17 September 1866. He married SARAH TATLOCK (Source: (1) LDS., (2) OPR(e).) 8 April 1814 in South Leith OPR, daughter of JAMES TATLOCK and MARGARET BELL. She was born 8 February 1795 in Dundee OPR (Source: OPR(e).), and died Bef. 1865
William Younger was a Brewer in Leith and this is his will dated 10th May 1770 describing places in Leith at the time.
When a person in the present day walks along the quay or Shore of Leith, he cannot but be struck with the absence of vessels. If half a dozen or so are lying along the quayside from the top of Coalhill to the lower drawbridge it is an exception to the ordinary state of matters. (more…)
This is a couple pages from the notes of Francis Muir minister of Junction Road Church from 1846 and is a example of Communion notes from 1846
Reproduced by kind permission of the Rev George Shand and the Kirk Session of St Thomas Junction Road Church (c)
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