View from E showing NNE front of numbers 3-5 and part of ESE front of numbers 6-7

Description View from E showing NNE front of numbers 3-5 and part of ESE front of numbers 6-7

Date 6/1966

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

Catalogue Number SC 677791

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Workers' housing, Now 1-15 Huntingdon Place, Glasgow This housing consisted of blocks of three-storeyed tenements ranged round a small courtyard. They were presumably built to house workers in the St Rollox Railway Works, on the opposite side of Springburn Road, and may well have been constructed by the Caledonian Railway, owners of the works. This shows two of the blocks of tenements, which were built of sandstone rubble. If they were built for railway workers it seems likely that they were contemporary with first St Rollox Works, built in 1856-7. Note the absence of graffiti and litter. When the first St Rollox Works was constructed there was no housing in its immediate vicinity, so it seems likely that to attract men to work there they found it expedient to provide some housing. Some of their key workers probably came from Greenock. These tenements were demolished in the late 1960s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/66/15/15

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/677791

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap