Manufacturing
Manufacturing has never had as big a presence in Edinburgh as Glasgow and thus the city's growth was not underpinned by manufacturing industry. Shipbuilding at Leith Docks, rubber works and several engineering factories were nevertheless important in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Edinburgh's main industries were brewing and printing and publishing. At one time there were over 40 breweries in the city and brewing employed the largest single workforce in the middle of the 20th century, but has declined rapidly since the 1980s. The closure of the Fountain Brewery in Fountainbridge in 2005 left Caledonian Brewery as the largest in the city.
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