View from S showing SSE front of SE block with part of railway bridge in foreground

Description View from S showing SSE front of SE block with part of railway bridge in foreground

Date 1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 646244

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Eagle Foundry, No 20 North Speirs Wharf, Glasgow This foundry was established in about 1820 by James Edington, and converted into a chemical works in 1872 for Alexander Cross & Sons, who made sulphuric acid by the lead chamber process and used it to make superphosphate fertiliser. This shows the more recent of two buildings, surviving in 1965, which appear to have been part of the Eagle Foundry. This one perhaps dated from the 1840s or 1850s. In 1965 it was owned by the Distillers' Co Ltd, and was used to house plant for liquefying carbon dioxide from Port Dundas Distillery. The stonework of this frontage was badly affected by acid fumes from the nearby sulphuric acid plant (long gone by 1965) and it has now been harled, so that it is hard to recognise as a 19th-century building. It is still used in connection with Port Dundas Distillery. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/16/11

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