View from SE showing SSW front and part of ESE front of S block of paint warehouses with Tradeston Paint Mills in background

Description View from SE showing SSW front and part of ESE front of S block of paint warehouses with Tradeston Paint Mills in background

Date 1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 659139

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Clydesdale Paint, Oil & Colour Works, Nos 104-18 Tradeston Street, Glasgow This warehouse was built in 1900 for Blacklock, McArthur & Co, a firm founded in about 1877. The works next door, built in 1888 was driven by steam, and made a wide range of paints and dry colours, including anti-fouling compositions for ships. This shows the warehouse from the south-east, designed in Venetian Gothic style by W F McGibbon, architect, in 1896 but not built until 1900. The tower contains a water tank for the sprinkler system for controlling fire in the warehouse. 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 H35/65/20/28

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/659139

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