View from SE showing ESE front

Description View from SE showing ESE front

Date 1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 662370

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Tobacco Pipe Works, Nos 26-42 Bain Street, Glasgow This factory was built in 1876-7 for W White & Son, clay pipe makers, to designs by M Forsyth, architect. It is built of red and white brick, though the design intention was to build it in stone. Whites were the largest firm of clay pipe makers in Glasgow. This shows the Bain Street frontage of the works from the south-east, with Moncur Street on the left. The works occupied almost a whole block. The tall bocks housed the moulding shops, and the kilns for firing the pipes were behind the two-storeyed link block. Clay pipes were the standard implements for smoking tobacco in the 19th century, and were only used a few times by most smokers. Large numbers were therefore needed. They were hand-moulded by women workers. Whites had long gone by the 1960s, but clay pipes were still made in the city until c.1966. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/23/9

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