Richmond Park Laundry General view from NW
SC 423891
Description Richmond Park Laundry General view from NW
Date 3/1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 423891
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Front of the Richmond Park Laundry, Cambuslang Road, Rutherglen, Lanarkshire The Richmond Park was one of the largest laundries in the west of Scotland built to serve the domestic market. By the time this photograph was taken some of the complex was in other use, but all the buildings seen here were designed as the laundry. This view shows the main frontage from the north west, with the central office flanked by single storey north-light workshops. The chimney served the boiler-house, for laundries consumed large quantities of hot water and steam. Households over a wide area sent cotton and linen goods to such laundries before washing machines became common. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/15/15
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