Glasgow, 197-199 Pollokshaws Road, St Andrew's Printing Works View from NW
SC 610608
Description Glasgow, 197-199 Pollokshaws Road, St Andrew's Printing Works View from NW
Date 1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 610608
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content St Andrews Electric Power Station, Nos 197-9 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow This station was built in 1899-1900 for Glasgow Corporation Electricity Department to designs by Andrew Myles, architect. It was built to supply the south side of the city with direct current (DC) electricity. It had railway sidings for the delivery of coal, and wooden cooling towers on the roof. This shows the offices of the generating station, as adapted to serve the printing and stationery works inserted after the closure of the works for the generation of electricity. It is built of red sandstone, while the rest of the works is faced in red terracotta brick. This works did not survive the transition to alternating current (AC) as the standard mode for the supply of electric power. It closed in about 1930, and was partly converted into the Corporation's printing and stationery works. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H68/461/2B
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