An aerial view of United Wire Works, off West Granton Road, SW of Granton Harbour

© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Simmons Aerofilms Ltd (who took this photograph)
and United Wire Works (who used it on a postcard)

Aerial View of United Wire Works, Granton

Location

The site where United Wire Works was built lies about a quarter of a mile inland, to the SW of Granton Harbour.

The area was occupied almost entirely by industry when this photograph was taken with buildings belonging to United Wire Works, storage tanks and railways.

Industry

The only housing is on the short street leading from the bottom-right corner of the picture to the entrance to United Wire Works.

The rectangular building at the top of this street (under the word 'Films' on the watermark) was the former Madelvic Car Factory.

The factory later to become part of United Wire Works and is now (in 2006) being used as offices by Edinburgh Waterfront Development.

Postcard Back

This aerial view was used on the front of a postcard produced for United Wire Works. Here is the back of the postcard.

An Earlier Postcard

Here is an earlier version of the same postcard with United Wire Works' buildings occupying an less of the land.

Please e-mail me to let me know if you can estimate the dates of these two aerial views.

Thank you. - Peter Stubbs