View from SW showing WNW front (Walls Street front)

Description View from SW showing WNW front (Walls Street front)

Date 23/7/1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 685659

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Gas Workshops & Maintenance Depot, Nos 24-32 Walls Street, Glasgow These workshops were built for Glasgow Corporation Gas Department for the repair and maintenance of gas appliances. They were constructed in three stages: the first in Walls Street in 1881; the second, on the corner of Walls Street and Blackfriars Street in 1888; and the third, in Blackfriars Street, in 1903. This shows the Walls Street frontage of the building from the south-west. The two-storeyed section in the centre is the original 1881 block, symmetrical about the cart entrance, and the left-hand block is the 1888 extension. Walls Street was formed on ground acquired by the City Improvement Trust from the mid-1860s to clear the worst slums. It was at first hoped to sell the ground thus acquired and cleared for a price exceeding costs, but from about 1880 the Trust itself, and Glasgow Corporation, began, as here, developing it themselves. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/68/7/30

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/685659

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap