Glasgow, North Speirs Wharf, Port Dundas Sugar Refinery View from NE showing Craighall Road frontage

Description Glasgow, North Speirs Wharf, Port Dundas Sugar Refinery View from NE showing Craighall Road frontage

Date 20/5/1967

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

Catalogue Number SC 598860

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Port Dundas Sugar Refinery, No 256 North Speirs Wharf, Glasgow Built in 1865-6, this was the largest of Glasgow's sugar refineries, using raw sugar imported by sea from the West Indies, probably transferred from sea-going vessels to this canal-side location by the Forth and Clyde Canal. This shows the rear of the main range from the north-east. The use of red and white brick was newly fashionable, but the other frontage, to the canal, was of sandstone. The two-storeyed range in the foreground was a link to another part of the works. Though sugar refining had been practised in Glasgow since the late 17th century, and though this works was one of the largest and most up-to-date of its kind, it did not have a long life, and was converted into bonded stores. It is now in residential use. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H67/254/2B

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/598860

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