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=Edinburgh Hide Skin and Tallow Market Company Limited=

Company Number: SC000409 Date of Incorporation: 8 April 1874 Contact Details: Lochside, Kinghorn, Fife, KY3 9YG Operating Details: Dissolved Other names (if known): Booth International Function of Company*: Non trading company (7499), previously hide production/services (1511) Headquarters/Base of Operations Location: (Glasgow?) Edinburgh, later Fife Area of Operation:


 * Taken from Standard Industrial Classification 2003, as used by Companies House in 2010

Records
This company is not trading, and there are no surviving records in local or national archives as far as I have been able to find. All letters sent to the current address were returned.

Company History
The last company at this address was Booth International, a company that exported leather goods internationally. I assume that this was the successors to the Edinburgh Hide, Skin and Tallow market company. In 1867 the Edinburgh Hide market was the second largest in Scotland (after Glasgow), and the city contained several important tanneries. I assume that this company was formed to improve the condition of the market buildings and facilities.

I have been unable to find any record of this company name in the National Archives of Scotland, so it may be that it is related to The Glasgow Hide, Skin and Tallow Market Co-operative Society Limited. This company appears to have run the Glasgow Hide Market at Greendyke Street, Glasgow and was in operation by 1877 [].

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