Blandfield Works, Wheatfield Road
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Blandfield Works, Wheatfield Road
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 2 Jun 2012
When thinking of Edinburgh, pharmaceuticals probably doesn't spring to mind as one of the city's major industries, yet MacFarlan Smith has long been one of the major producers of fine chemicals for the whole of Britain. Its history goes back as far as the 1780s; and in the 1840s one of its main shareholders was the chemist whose company supplied Dr. James Young Simpson with the chloroform used in his anaesthetic experiments. Image
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Image Location
Latitude
55.938968
Longitude
-3.237446