Annandale Street

The final round  

We now enter the last days of the Industrial Hall, Edinburgh’s first purpose-built exhibition space on Annandale Street.  

No amount of roller-skating stunts, Christmas carnivals, circus troupes, galloping Cossacks and smoke-shrouded boxing collisions could disguise the fact that Scotland’s economy in the postwar Depression of the early and mid 1920s could not sustain a commercial venture of this kind.

The end is nigh 

As 1925 drew to a close, rumours about the future of the Annandale Street Industrial Hall, Edinburgh's first purpose-built exhibition space were confirmed when the proprietors decided to sell the property.

Against all evidence, they insisted that the space was capable of supporting its original commercial purpose.