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Lavrock
Bank was originally an estate or large house and is shown as a house, Laverock
Bank,
(note spelling) on the 1847 OS map (right) - On the 1768
map (left) something called Parr's (a farm?) seems to be the same
site.
 There
is also a view of the area in the Herculaneum
Chapel file, as this was close by and figures on the same painting
from 1859. The history of the house and estate is, as yet, untraced.
but by the time of the 1890 map it is Lavrock Bank, and was a Corporation
Stables. A series of photographs at LRO (352 ENG/2/...) dating
from 1902 suggest that the destructor which later occupied this
site was built from 1902-1904 and by 1905 the map shows that it was
a Corporation Yard which included a Refuse Destructor and an Electric
Power Station.
The entire site yard and destructor site was
demolished and replaced by housing about 1998.
In
30th June 1903, someone climbed the chimney of the refuse disposal works and incinerator on the Lavrock Bank site, close to Wellington Road and the southern Docks. Whilst there they took several photographs looking across the city and I have done my best to interpret these using maps of the time.
There are currently five files available and these have active edges, so that you can click to go left or right and view the adjacent area, the river itself is not shown so that perhaps 300 of the possible 360 degrees are covered. Hovering your cursor over some of the landmarks may activate a label to show what they are, but until the code is finished, clicking may rob you of this facility, that is not me, it's your browser. Enjoy.
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