Edinburgh retro: looking back at Edinburgh breweries over the years

Part of our retro series, this video looks back at Edinburgh breweries over the years.

Transcript

00:00 Hello, I'm Neil from the Evening News and this video is part of a retro series where

00:05 we look back at historic pictures of Edinburgh. In this video we'll be looking at pictures

00:10 of Edinburgh breweries.

00:13 This picture from 1984 shows the Lorimer and Clark in Slateford, the last brewery to use

00:19 coal-fired coppers in Britain.

00:23 Here we see employees Bill Edmond and Graham Wood preparing to open the Caledonian Brewery

00:28 in September 1992.

00:31 Morcambe and Wise enjoy a pint of Tenants' Lager with Erica, one of the can's models,

00:36 when they visited the Heriot Brewery at Roseburn in December 1978.

00:43 Here we see barrels lined up at Dryborough's Craigmillar Brewery.

00:48 This picture shows a tanker leaving Younger Beer's Holyrood depot for the Edinburgh Brewery

00:53 Fair.

00:55 And here we see a view from inside the building.

01:00 This picture from 1987 shows architect Nick Groves outside the Craigwell Brewery in Calton

01:05 Road. The site has since been converted into housing.

01:10 A picture from 2003. Here we see the famous Fountain Brewery flyover at Fountain Bridge.

01:18 A picture from Usher's Brewery in St Leonard's shows Coopers tightening hasps on the beer

01:23 barrels.

01:25 Here we see the old St Leonard's Brewery at the corner of East Cross Causeway and the

01:29 Pleasants in October 1975.

01:34 Here we see St Anne's, the old Robert Younger Brewery on Crofton Rye Lane being demolished

01:39 to make way for a housing development in 1987. The brewery originally closed in 1961.

01:47 A man can be seen here shoveling hops at the Heriot Brewery in Roseburn.

01:53 And finally here we see staff at Usher's Brewery in St Leonard's packing bottles into crates

01:57 before being shipped across the country.

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02:09 and click on the retro tab.

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