Glasgow, Shearer Street, Riverside Mills View from WNW showing WNW front of main processing building with grain stores on right

Description Glasgow, Shearer Street, Riverside Mills View from WNW showing WNW front of main processing building with grain stores on right

Date 2/10/1966

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

Catalogue Number SC 591639

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Riverside Mills, Shearer Street, Glasgow (Glasgow City council area) This complex was originally built in about 1870 as general stores, close to the recently-opened Kingston Dock. One block was converted into a roller flour mill in 1910, the other remaining as a granary. The mill was steam-driven until closure in 1968. This view shows the complex from the west, with the mill on the left, and the granary to the right. The railway track in the foreground was part of the General Terminus Quay system To the left were reinforced-concrete grain silos of 1914. A fire in the granary block in 1968 forced the closure of the mill. As cooling water for the steam engine was drawn from Kingston Dock, being filled in at the time, the mill would have been converted to electric drive if retained. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H66/88/2D

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/591639

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