View from SE showing SSE front of offices of Kelvinbridge Station with warehouse and workshops in background

Description View from SE showing SSE front of offices of Kelvinbridge Station with warehouse and workshops in background

Date 1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 659123

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Warehouses and workshops, Nos 19-37 Otago Street, Glasgow In the late 19th century the west end of Glasgow was the wealthiest and most fashionable residential area in the city. These workshops and warehouses were built to serve the market for furnishings thus created. They were built between 1887 and 1897 for P Hepburn, wholesale cabinetmaker and upholsterer. This shows the buildings in the centre, both red and white brick. The later of the two is on the left, with the mansard roof. The red and white brick treatment was confined to the rear elevations; the fronts were finished in sandstone ashlar as befitted a residential area. After World War II, when demand for expensive furnishings had evaporated, Charles Hepburn used these premises for whisky blending and broking, and made a great success of his 'Red Hackle' blended Scotch. The buildings are now in part used as a Sikh temple and social centre. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/20/11

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/659123

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