Fisher, Howard & Sons, cork merchants

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Item no

37761

Title

Fisher, Howard & Sons, cork merchants and importers of foreign corks, Easter Road

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1895

Size

13.1 x 17.1 cm

Type

Photograph

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Fisher, Howard & Sons shared premises with other businesses at Easter Road. By 1898 another cork cutting company had replaced them there. At the end of the nineteenth century there were several cork cutting companies in Leith, a natural place for them to set up as cork was imported by sea. Cork was used for bottle stoppers, as seen in the basket at the front of the photograph, to a greater extent than it is now, and also in the production of linoleum.

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Places > Edinburgh areas > Leith

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh