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View from SSW showing SSW and WNW fronts of store blocks

SC 772716

Description View from SSW showing SSW and WNW fronts of store blocks

Date 4/1/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 772716

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Provan Gas Works, Glasgow This shows the main works offices, with the stores block beyond, on the eastern edge of the site. Part of the meter houses can be seen to the left. The offices are built of red terracotta brick, with red sandstone dressings. The spacious layout is notable: this was designed as a model gas 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 H35/71/1/22

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/772716

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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Collection Level (551 147) Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

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Attribution: © HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume

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