April – STV's Edinburgh operation is moved from George Street in the city centre to a new studio at Fountainbridge.
He has since had a street in Fountainbridge where he was brought up named in his honour and a bench placed in the Grassmarket area, again, near where he lived as a boy.
The company's Castle Mill premises eventually covered 20 acres of land in the area and employed thousands of workers over five generations in manufacturing a variety of products from galoshes and the first Wellington boots to solid rubber wheels for Thomson steam traction engines (after 1870), pneumatic tyres (after 1890) and hot-water bottles.
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It is the area where film star Sir Sean Connery was born and grew up, explaining his choice of name for his production company, Fountainbridge Films.
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The Second World War brought another boom with the production of millions of civilian gas masks and barrage-balloon fabric.
In 1951 Basil returned to The Kirchin Band, now renamed the Ivor and Basil Kirchin Band, which made its debut on September 8 with a year-long residency at the Edinburgh Fountainbridge Palais, followed in November 1953 by an engagement at the Belfast Plaza Ballroom that extended into the spring of 1954.
The firm has its head office in the Edinburgh Quay development between Lochrin and Fountainbridge in Edinburgh, and an office on Bothwell Street in the centre of Glasgow.
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The firm was based for over one hundred years on Edinburgh's Queen Street, a popular area for solicitors' firms, but moved in 2005 to the new Edinburgh Quay development in the city's regenerated Fountainbridge business district.
Sir William McEwan Younger, 1st Baronet, of Fountainbridge, (1905–1992), Scottish brewer and Conservative political activist