Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 565308
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/565308
] Shelter, Bridgeton Cross, 1874, George Smith & Co., Sun Foundry
Octagonal cast-iron shelter, on cast-iron columns, gifted by the Foundry and known as the 'Umbrella'. Red shingle roof, square clocktower, weathervane. The Cross was a redevelopment formed by the City Improvement Trust in the 1870s.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
