Glasgow, Glasgow Road, Shawfield Chemical Works General view from ENE showing NE side of works

Description Glasgow, Glasgow Road, Shawfield Chemical Works General view from ENE showing NE side of works

Date 23/7/1967

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

Catalogue Number SC 595658

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Shawfield Chemical Works, Glasgow Road, Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire This works was founded in 1810 as a soap works, and was taken over in 1818 by J & J White, who converted it to make potassium chromate. It became one of the largest chrome chemical works in the world, but had an unenviable health record amongst its staff. This shows part of the works from the south-east. By 1967 all these buildings were disused. Just right of centre are kilns with domed covers which were used for roasting chrome ores. Behind the reeds is a wharf on the River Clyde, used by the works. In 1967 this works was owned by the Associated Chemical Companies Ltd, who closed it in the 1970s, and the site has since been cleared. The chromates it made were used in tanning, in the calico-printing industry, and in chemical manufacture. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H67/318/2A

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