View from SE showing SSW and ESE fronts of works with part of warehouses on right

Description View from SE showing SSW and ESE fronts of works with part of warehouses on right

Date 8/1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 685825

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Engineering Works, Nos 8-18 Scotland Street, Glasgow This works was built in 1870-1 for James Howden, engineer, to replace the works he had been occupying immediately to the east. It was a large and impressive complex, built largely of red and white brick, but with a sandstone ashlar frontage to Scotland Street. This shows the works from the south-east, with the Paterson Street frontage to the right, and the Scotland Street frontage to the left. In 1872 Howden described himself as a marine engineer and shipbuilder. His erecting shop was presumably in the lower part of the tall building on the right. Howdens left this works in 1897 for a new one further west along Scotland Street. By that time they were simply referred to as 'engineers'. Their old works was taken over by Blair, Campbell & Maclean, who were coppersmiths on an extensive scale. They called the works the Scotland Street Copper Works. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/68/13/32

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/685825

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