View from NW showing NNE front of cold store with part of City Chambers in foreground
SC 685700
Description View from NW showing NNE front of cold store with part of City Chambers in foreground
Date 23/7/1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 685700
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Cold Store, Nos 223-31 George Street, Glasgow This warehouse was built in 1872-3 as a fruit warehouse for Benjamin Simons, fruit broker. In about 1900 it was converted into a cold store for the Scottish Cold Storage & Ice Co, which later became part of the Union Cold Storage Co Ltd, the owners in 1968. This shows the building from the south-west, showing its fairly elaborate frontage, and provision for shops on the ground floor. The windows were blocked up when it was converted into a cold store and ice factory. To the left is the former St John's Free Church, part of the cold storage complex. The cold store was probably originally designed to store imported chilled and frozen meat coming into Glasgow Harbour. This warehouse and the former Free Church were demolished in 1971, and after the site had lain derelict for several years new offices for Glasgow District Council were built on it. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/68/8/35
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