Bell's Mills from Belford Bridge

Category

Library Item

Item no

40994

Title

Bell's Mills from Belford Bridge

Artist / maker

Wyllie, H. D.

Date

1953

Size

14.9 x 9.9 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Dean Village is a riverside community in the west of Edinburgh, roughly half a mile from the West End of Princes Street. It has a long history as a grain milling hamlet stretching back at least as far as the early 12th century. The increasing strength of the Leith flour mills in the 19th century led to a period of economic decline in the village, but it is now an affluent and desirable place to live. Despite its close proximity to the centre of Edinburgh, Dean Village retains a quiet atmosphere in keeping with its rural heritage.

There had been mills on the site occupied by Bell's Mills since the late 16th century, but an explosion in 1975 left the granary as the only surviving building.

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