Tower Mains Farm, Liberton

Category

Library Item

Item no

10018

Title

Tower Mains Farm, Liberton

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1917

Size

7.6 x 9.9 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

According to The New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845), Liberton was one of the most important agricultural parishes in Scotland. The cultivated land was divided into thirty-four farms varying in size from 40 to 268 acres. One of these farms was Tower Mains Farm.

At the time when this photograph was taken the farm belonged to a Brigadier General Robert Gordon but had been farmed by the Monteith Family for at least two generations. In 1917 the farmer was Bryden Monteith who together with his wife Margaret lived at Tower Mains. Bryden Monteith was born in 1861 at Tower Mains when his father also named Bryden was the occupier.

Tower Mains is now a mixture of residential and commercial premises.

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