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From: "J A Olsen" <>
Subject: Re: [EDB] BREWERIES IN EDINBURGH - completed response
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 14:42:54 +0000


Yes thats the one, but it is on the corner of Leven St and Tarvit St.

On the mid 19th map the street alongside is called something like Drumdryan
Lane but then becomes Tarvit St. Drumdryan St is the dog leg which runs from
half way down Tarvit St and comes out in Brougham Street.

The eastern entrance of the brewery seems to have beeni Tarvit St right
opposite the junction with Drumdryan St. On the 1890s map you can see where
the brewery stops and the tenements begin and this matches pretty exactly
with the footprint of the present day theatre.

There is an old pic of this site looking from Leven St - it is probably
included in Malcolm Cant's Tollcross etc postcard book (Stenlake
Publishing). From memory the frontage onto Leven St was some kind of single
storey shop, but I think the brewery chimney is visible behind.

The pub next to the brewery on the maps is Bennet(t?)s, which is something
of an Edinburgh institution.

Judy






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>From: David Millan <>
>To:
>Subject: Re: [EDB] BREWERIES IN EDINBURGH - completed response
>Date: 09, Fri Apr, 2004, 12:43 pm
>

> However I see elsewhere a reference to a Drumdryan Brewery. As the
> Kings in on the corner of the modern Drumdryan Street I assume this is
> the one on the site of the theatre.

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