a date stone '1886' if one were to look up. There’s more date stones on three buildings at the junction of Wheatfield St, Gorgie Rd and Wardlaw Place. The south side of Gorgie Road 1887-1899 and north side 1896-1899 west of Newton Street. although Gorgie, west of Robertson Avenue, did not lose its rural character until the early 1900s. McVitie & Price Ltd was established in 1830 on Rose Street in Edinburgh. The firm moved to various sites in the city, before completing the St. Andrews Biscuit Works factory on Robertson Avenue in 1888. Though the factory burned down in 1894, it was rebuilt the same year. It is one of the claimed sites of where the digestive biscuit was invented. The site was closed in 1969, when production ceased and operations were transferred to Levenshulme in Manchester, and Harlesden in London. After closure, Ferranti occupied the buildings as an electronics factory until the 1980s. In 1906, pharmaceutical research company T&H Smith Ltd moved from Canongate to the district. Now merged with two other Edinburgh-based medical research companies, they form medicinal-opiate producer MacFarlan Smith. The chemical plant of Cox's glue and gelatin works, and the Caledonian Brewery also developed in the area. Places of worship What is now Gorgie-Dalry Parish Church can be traced back to the Tynecastle church opened in 1891 after several years of outreach by Rev. George Wilson since 1885; it is affiliated to the Church of Scotland. St. Martin of Tours church is in the Anglican Communion Gorgie Gospel Hall belongs to the Open Brethren Christian tradition. In 1908 what is now Gorgie Mission Church was opened. Since 2008, Destiny Church, Edinburgh has been meeting in the converted former Bingo Hall. Present Most of the large industrial works closed from the late-1960s to the mid-1980s, bringing high unemployment to the area. The recent refurbishment of many of the older buildings has brought a more cosmopolitan nature to the district, allowing it to retain several smaller businesses. The area is served by Tynecastle High School. Gorgie City Farm was established by local people in 1982 on the site of a derelict railway goods yard. Set up as a community project with the aim of improving education in agriculture, horticulture and rural crafts for people living in the area. In 2012, Gorgie was the centre of a Legionnaire's Disease outbreak believed to originate from factory cooling towers in