Della Casa Granite Quarries of Italy Limited
Active: 1894 - 1910
Function: Granite workers and polishers / monumental sculptors
History or description: Della Casa granite was used in the Glenrusco Bridge over the Tweed to carry the water mains from Talla Reservoir to Edinburgh. It was also used as a rail bridge during construction with first train crossing on 29th August 1897. This suggests the company were operating in Scotland from around the early 1890s.
This record includes information submitted by Dr Jim Lyon.
Locations
Office located at 8 Frederick Street Edinburgh | View on map
1900 (Circa)
p. 702
Listed under Granite Workers and Polishers
Descriptions of Business or Institution
Listed under Monumental Sculptors Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1900-1901
p. 743
Listed under Sculptors
Listed under Stone Yards Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1900-1901
p. 702
Listed under Granite Workers and Polishers
Sources
Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1900-1901
May 1900
p. 702
Listed under Granite Workers and Polishers
p. 743
Listed under Sculptors
Citing this record
'Della Casa Granite Quarries of Italy Limited', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/organization.php?id=msib6_1216721713, accessed 12 Aug 2022]
