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Edinburgh, 29 Blair Street

Stationery Works (18th Century), Tenement (18th Century)

Site Name Edinburgh, 29 Blair Street

Classification Stationery Works (18th Century), Tenement (18th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Waverley Cameron Ltd Stationery Works

Canmore ID 117108

Site Number NT27SE 1319

NGR NT 25922 73520

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Edinburgh, City Of
  • Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District City Of Edinburgh
  • Former County Midlothian

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NT27SE 1319 25922 73520

REFERENCE: SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE

Specification of the New Printing House to be erected in Blair Street for His Majesty's Printers. The cost is expected 'to come within five thousand pounds sterling'. Architect: Alexander Laing (D.1823). Accompanies a letter James Bremner to John Bruce.

1801 GD152/218/2/Bundle 4/7

Estimate of masonwork for the New Printing House in Blair Street ?1800. Alexander Laing, Architect (D.1823) adds a note in which he expresses dismay at building the front of the Office of common rubble. Broached stone is required for appearance and strength particularly as the pillars between the windows are small and consequently weak.

30 May 1801 GD152/218/2/Bundle 5/1-2x

Joisting work for the New Printing House to be erected in Blair Street for His Majesty's Printers. Offer by John Young, Wright (D.1801) to undertake the work at the rate of 6/- per superficial yard. Estimate (copy) accompanies a letter from James Bremner to John Bruce.

1801 GD152/218/2/Bundle 4/12

Purchase of house behind the Printing Works in Blair Street. Described as 'Vile old house', it is bought by the King's Printers for ?180 and advertise for demolition. Letters: William Waddel to John Bruce.

1808 GD152/218/3/Bundle 2/2 and 9

Choice of stone for the front of the New Printing House. 'Neither the Magistrates, Dean of Guild Deacons nor any person concerned with the Town care one farthing what kind of a building you erect and the Trustees of the Bridge..care as little'. Two thirds of the front will be of ashlar because of the number of windows and if the remaining third was of rubble it would require to be harled to prevent decay. Consequently substituting rubble for ashlar would save little money. Letter: James Bremner to John Bruce.

30 May 1801 GD152/2/Bundle 5/1-2x

Printing Office, Blair Street. 'The old house behind the Printing House is now razing to the foundation, and in a little time our new wall will be completed, which will shut us completely in, and secure us from depredators and from what is of greatest consequence the danger of neighbours' fire'. Letter: William Waddel to John Bruce.

19 March 1809 GD152/218/3/Bundle 3/3

Thin. (?John) (?1765-1827) (?Wall enclosing printing works) Dispute over choice of arbiters. Letters: William Waddel to John Bruce (Builder and Architect).

1809 GD152/218/3/Bundle 3/12, 13, 19

Proposed plan to convert the old Printing Office in Blair Street into modern houses. Letter from D Hunter Blair to O Tyndall Bruce. He considers the project enormously costly and would prefer to sell.

12 January 1853 GD152/53/7/Bundle 16

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