View from SSW showing SSE and WSW fronts of W block

Description View from SSW showing SSE and WSW fronts of W block

Date 31/10/1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 664405

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Lambhill Iron Works, No 30 Strachur Street, Glasgow This works was founded in 1881 by R Laidlaw & Son, gas and water engineers, on the banks of the Forth & Clyde Canal, in which it had a wharf. The company was founded in Edinburgh in the late 18th century, and the Lambhill works was one of three works they owned in Glasgow. This shows part of the works from the south-west. The main range of steel-framed, corrugated-iron-clad workshops is on the right. The red and white brick building was probably part of the 1881 works, and judging by the roof ridge ventilator appears to have been a heavy foundry. Laidlaws made gas meters, gas lamps for interior and exterior use and water meters in their Edinburgh works. The Glasgow works made heavy equipment, such as pipes, gas holders, retort fronts, purifiers for the gas industry, as well as piers, and water works equipment for use at home and abroad. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/26/14

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/664405

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap