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View from S showing ESE and SSW fronts of gatehouse with works buildings in background

SC 772715

Description View from S showing ESE and SSW fronts of gatehouse with works buildings in background

Date 4/1/1971

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 772715

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Provan Gas Works, Glasgow This shows the entrance to the works looking along a steel plate girder bridge carrying Provan Road over a branch into the works from the Lanarkshire & Dumbartonshire Railway. The small stone building is the gatehouse, and to its right are the meter houses, which record the volume of gas leaving the works. After the introduction of natural gas in the 1970s the reforming plant was dismantled, and the works is now just a holder station. There are two very large holders on the southern edge of the complex and a smaller one to the north. This works was built in 1900-4 for Glasgow Corporation Gas Department, and designed by William Foulis, engineer. It was greatly extended after 1919. It was a vertical retort coal-gas works, and operated into the 1960s. It was then converted to make gas by reforming naphtha from oil refineries. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/1/23

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/772715

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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