Hanover Mill, Metro Bridge & Forth Banks from Close
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Hanover Mill, Metro Bridge & Forth Banks from Close
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 5 Dec 2011
The west end of Close near the junction of Skinnerburn Road and Forth Banks has changed much and was once a densely packed industrial area. In 1827 there was the large Northumberland Flint-Glass Works, a brewery, a steam flour mill and Skinnerburn Iron Works. Forth Banks was described as 'a wide and commodious road conducts from its extremity up a bold ascent to the Infirmary and Forth'. The east side of Forth Banks, above Hanover Street, was the location of Hawthorn's Engine Works. Skinnerburn Road, below the steep bank terraced into garden plots, had timber yards and lime kilns, leading to the Elswick Lead Works and its prominent Shot Tower. Eneas Mackenzie (1827) http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43343
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Image Location
Latitude
54.965251
Longitude
-1.615904