Glasgow, 229-231 Castle Street, St Rollox Chemical Works View from WSW showing W and S fronts of acid loading bay
SC 634975
Description Glasgow, 229-231 Castle Street, St Rollox Chemical Works View from WSW showing W and S fronts of acid loading bay
Date 10/12/1964
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 634975
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content St Rollox Chemical Works, Nos 229-31 Castle Street, Glasgow This works was founded in 1799 by Tennant, Knox & Co, chemical manufacturers, to make bleaching powder, a compound of calcium and chlorine which when dissolved in water to make a bleaching liquor. Patented by Charles Tennant, it made the company the largest chemical makers in the world. This shows a structure which was latterly used as a loading bay for sulphuric acid, but which was probably part of the substructure of a lead chamber, part of an early process for sulphuric acid manufacture. On the right is the basin on the 'Cut of Junction' used by the works. Charles Tennant & Co Ltd were driving forces in the establishment in 1890 of the United Alkali Co Ltd, a defensive amalgamation of makers of soda by the Leblanc process. The combine ran down manufacture at St Rollox. What was left of the works closed in 1964 and was demolished in 1964-5. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/64/7/30
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