Glasgow, 6-10 Commerce Street, Tradeston Grain Mills View from S showing ESE front of number 14-16 Commerce Street with Tradeston Free Church in foreground and Tradeston Grain Mills in background

Description Glasgow, 6-10 Commerce Street, Tradeston Grain Mills View from S showing ESE front of number 14-16 Commerce Street with Tradeston Free Church in foreground and Tradeston Grain Mills in background

Date 17/8/1967

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

Catalogue Number SC 595786

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Tradeston Grain Mills, Nos 6-10 Commerce Street, Glasgow These mills were founded in about 1846 by William Muir. In 1872 they were badly damaged by a dust explosion, which wrecked several adjacent buildings. The mills were replaced in 1873-4. This shows the mills from the south-east. The main mill range is the six-storeyed block, with a former church and halls complex on the left. By 1967 the mills had long been used as a cold store, owned by the Clyde Cold Storage Co Ltd. At the time of the explosion in 1872 this complex was making flour, and also baking biscuits, probably for provisioning ships. As a stone-grinding mill it would have become obsolete in the 1880s and was converted into a store in the 1890s. It was demolished in the 1970s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H67/332/2B

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/595786

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