Glasgow, Cook Street, Eglinton Engine Works View from NW showing WNW and NNE fronts of 1855 block
SC 595783
Description Glasgow, Cook Street, Eglinton Engine Works View from NW showing WNW and NNE fronts of 1855 block
Date 17/8/1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 595783
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Eglinton Engine Works, Cook Street, Glasgow This works was founded in about 1855 by A & W Smith & Co, general engineers, and subsequently greatly extended. The firm eventually specialised in making sugar machinery, and were ultimately the last Glasgow firm in this business. This shows the original works. extending along Cook Street, from the north-west. The red brick block on the right was added in the 1870s. As built, the older block had a workshop with a single space lit by the lower two rows of windows. By 1967, A & W Smith had taken over the goodwill of several other firms, including the Mirrlees Watson Co. They were part of the Tate & Lyle sugar-manufacturing group. The works closed in the 1980s, and was left to fall into dereliction. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/332/1A
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