View from S showing ESE front of N block with part of S block of paint warehouses in foreground and Glasgow Copper Works in background

Description View from S showing ESE front of N block with part of S block of paint warehouses in foreground and Glasgow Copper Works in background

Date 1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 659138

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Clydesdale Paint, Oil & Colour Works, Nos 104-18 Tradeston Street, Glasgow This works was built in 1888 for Blacklock, McArthur & Co, a firm founded in about 1877. The works was driven by steam, and made a wide range of paints and dry colours, including anti-fouling compositions for ships. The firm had a branch depot at Cardiff. This shows the works from the south-east. It was designed by H & D Barclay. On the left is part of a Venetian Gothic warehouse built for the firm in 1900 to designs by W F McGibbon, architect. On the right is the Glasgow Copper Works. The firm eventually became part of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd's Paint Division, who were still using this building and the 1900 one as warehouses in 1965. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/20/27

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/659138

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