Glasgow, 76 Portman Street, Kingston Engine Works View from NE showing NNE and ESE fronts

Description Glasgow, 76 Portman Street, Kingston Engine Works View from NE showing NNE and ESE fronts

Date 17/8/1967

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

Catalogue Number SC 595767

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Kingston Engine Works, No 71 Milnpark Street and No 76 Portman Street, Glasgow This works was founded in about 1866 by Smith Brothers, engineers and iron founders, and extended in World War I for munitions manufacture The firm eventually specialised in the manufacture of shipbuilding machine tools. This shows the original works, built in red and white brick, with round-headed windows, a style characteristic of the 1860s and 1870s. Note the large elliptically-arched doorway, and the use of stone dressings on the corners, and round the doorway, an unusual feature. Since Smith Brothers left the works in the inter-war years, it has been used for a variety of purposes. Since the 1980s it has belonged to News International, and prints the Scottish editions of The Times and The Sun newspapers. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H67/330/2A

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/595767

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap