View from SSW showing W front of Canal Office with mills and sugar refinery in background

Description View from SSW showing W front of Canal Office with mills and sugar refinery in background

Date 1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 646269

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content City of Glasgow Grain Mills and Port Dundas Sugar Refinery, Nos 186-260 North Speirs Wharf, Glasgow These buildings were constructed from about 1851. The canal at this point may have been widened at that time, or a little earlier. The grain mills came first, the southern section being built in about 1851. They were extended in 1869-70. The main range of the sugar refinery was built in 1865-6. This shows the buildings from the south-west. The grain mills and associated warehouses extend almost to the end of the range, the taller block at the far end being the sugar refinery. On the right is the canal office built in 1812. In 1965 the buildings were used as bonded whisky warehouses. These buildings were occupied in 1965 by the Clyde Bonding Co Ltd, a subsidiary of the Highland Distilleries Co Ltd. They moved out in the late 1970s, and the buildings were converted into flats and offices by Windex Ltd in the 1980s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/16/24

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