View from NNE showing ESE front of Washington Flour Mills with 84 Washington Street and part of Crown Flour Mills in foreground

Description View from NNE showing ESE front of Washington Flour Mills with 84 Washington Street and part of Crown Flour Mills in foreground

Date 14/8/1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 659155

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Washington Grain Mills, Washington Street, Glasgow These mills were founded in about 1849 by J & R Snodgrass, and subsequently much extended, taking over Nos 82-6 Washington Street, built in 1865 as a warehouse for W & D Cross. The mills were built to use grain imported through the port of Glasgow after the full repeal of the Corn Laws in 1849. This shows the mills from the north-east. The oldest block was at the rear. The four-bayed building was Cross's warehouse, and to its left is an addition of 1874, originally symmetrical. Beyond this are yellow brick-clad silos, dating from the early 20th century. The older parts of this complex were demolished from the 1960s, but the mills continued to operate until the late 1990s, when they were the last grain mills in the area. They have now been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/21/5

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/659155

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