Cradle roll enrolment certificate

Category

Library Item

Item no

37368

Title

Cradle roll enrolment certificate

Description

Enrolment certificate for baby Stewart Cummings Woolgar placing him on the cradle roll of Leith Methodist Central Hall.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1934

Size

25.4 x 20.4 cm

Type

Document

Location

Edinburgh City Archives

Stewart Cummings Woolgar was a descendant of the William Cummings & Son box making family of Leith Walk.

William Cummings founded his box making business of Murano Place, Leith Walk in 1876. His son Andrew took responsibility for the business on his father's death in 1892 and changed the name to Wm. Cummings & Son Ltd in 1900. By 1907 the company employed 150 people across the different departments of sawmill, home and export case, confectionery box, tin lining, fancy paper box, leatherboard box and turning department. Under Andrew Cummings direction the firm continued, as his father had, to apply mechanical innovations and labour saving devices. The business was still in operation into the late 1960s.

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