View from SE showing SSW and ESE fronts

Description View from SE showing SSW and ESE fronts

Date 24/3/1966

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

Catalogue Number SC 676136

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Contractors' Depot, Nos 94-6 Milnpark Street, Glasgow This depot was built in about 1895 for James Bow & Sons, cartage contractors, probably to designs by Bruce & Hay, architects. Bows were a medium-sized firm in the cartage business, and also had a depot in Townhead. This shows the building from the south-east. The carts were kept on the ground floor of the building, and there were stalls for the horses to pull them, and hay and grain stores, on the upper floors. The frontage id clad in red terracotta brick. On the right is part of Parkholm Iron Foundry. In the late 19th century and until the early 1900s, Glasgow, like other large towns and cities, used very large numbers of horses for transport. Because the economic range of horse haulage was short, most of the stables and depots needed were sited in the areas in which such transport was used. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/66/8/27

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/676136

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap