View from N showing WNW front of paint mill with dyeworks and paint factory in foreground and engine works in background

Description View from N showing WNW front of paint mill with dyeworks and paint factory in foreground and engine works in background

Date 7/1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 685618

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Dyeworks & Paint Factory, Nos 161-73 West Street, Glasgow The demolition of buildings on the west side of West Street in 1968 revealed a remarkable panorama of Victorian industrial buildings, as shown in this view. All the buildings seen here were built between 1850 and 1896, in Tradeston, planned as an industrial suburb of Glasgow in the early 19th century. This shows, from the left: a dyeworks of 1880, for James Mills; a paint factory of 1896 for Blacklock & McArthur; the Tradeston Paint Mills of 1866 for H McBean & Co, with a later top storey; and three blocks of the Eglinton Engine Works, built in about 1855, and in the 1870s for A & W Smith. In the foreground of this view are foundation pits for approach roads to the Kingston Bridge. It was intended in 1968 that the south flank of the proposed Glasgow ring road would go through the dyeworks, paint factory and paint mills seen here, but it met with such opposition that it was not built. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/68/6/18

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