Glasgow, 8-48 Coustonholm Road, Coustonholm Works General View
SC 608541
Description Glasgow, 8-48 Coustonholm Road, Coustonholm Works General View
Date 1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 608541
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Coustonholm Works (Cotton Weaving), Nos 8-48 Coustonholm Road, Glasgow This weaving factory was founded in about 1858 by the Coustonholm Weaving Co, and covered a large area. It was situated in Pollokshaws, which was, at the time, a village with a reputation for hand-loom weaving and textile finishing. This shows the very austere street frontage of the factory. This appears to have been part of the warehouse and office complex. The forbidding appearance may have been intended to deter Luddite machine breaking; hand-loom weavers were notoriously radical. The main part of this complex had been replaced by a modern water-proofing works by 1968, and all the older parts have now gone. Pollokshaws village was almost entirely rebuilt in the 1960s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H68/448/1C
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