Robert Smail´s Printing Works, Innerleithen
Restoration of a 120-year-old printing works including a Victorian office, composing room, machine room, paper store and shop. The restoration preserved the authentic atmosphere of a small jobbing printworks where 50 "guardbooks" recording the social history of a small Scottish ...
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Project details
Title: | Robert Smail´s Printing Works, Innerleithen |
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Entr. year: | 1991 |
Result: | Diploma |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Town: | Innerleithen, Scottish Borders (Scotland) |
Category type: | architectural heritage |
Building type/ Project type: | industrial heritage |
Former use: | Printing works |
Actual use: | Historic printing works open to the public |
Built: | 19th century |
Architect / Proj.leader: | Dennis G. Rodwell, Architect |
The Jury's citation: | "For the restoration of a 120 year old printing works preserving its machinery and atmosphere, for use as a visitor centre" |
Web, Links: | www.nts.org.uk/Visit/Robert-Smails/ |
Description:
Restoration of a 120-year-old printing works including a Victorian office, composing room, machine room, paper store and shop. The restoration preserved the authentic atmosphere of a small jobbing printworks where 50 "guardbooks" recording the social history of a small Scottish Borders community over a period of more than a century were found and conserved. Vintage working machinery.
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