Leith Golf and Golfers - the Lochend Club

Category

Library Item

Item no

37371

Title

Leith Golf and Golfers - the history of the Lochend Club

Description

In the centre of the page is a portrait of Mr Andrew Cummings, present Captain of Lochend Club. A paragraph in the article reports on his worthy succession to the role, as one of the oldest and most active members of the club:
'His fifteen years connection with the Lochend and his business experience should go to make him an ideal captain. Mr Cummings is manager in the business of William Cummings & Son, Murano Place'.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1909

Size

45.0 x 29.0 cm

Location

Edinburgh City Archives

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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