Glasgow, 629 Old Shettleston Road, Shettleston Ironworks View from SW showing WNW front (Earnside Street front)

Description Glasgow, 629 Old Shettleston Road, Shettleston Ironworks View from SW showing WNW front (Earnside Street front)

Date c. 1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 612949

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Shettleston Ironworks, No 629 Old Shettleston Road, Glasgow This works was built in about 1874 for J & T Boyd, textile machinery makers. Like many early engineering works it incorporated a foundry to make cast-iron frames and other parts for machines. It was the largest textile machinery works in Glasgow. This shows the side of the main range, in Earnside Street. This was one of the longest red and white brick ranges in the Glasgow area. The round-headed windows are typical of industrial building in the west of Scotland in the 1860s and 1870s. This firm made spinning, winding and doubling frames, mainly for the woollen and worsted industries. In the 1950s it built a new works on the Queenslie Industrial Estate, but retained this works, and the foundry, which was still operating in the early 1970s. However, the works has since been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H69/503/1A

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/612949

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