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View from N showing chimney with main block in background
SC 686351
Description View from N showing chimney with main block in background
Date 12/10/1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 686351
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Refuse Destructor, Nos 12-16 Haghill Road, Glasgow This was one of a series of destructors built in the 1890s for Glasgow Corporation Cleansing Department, designed by A W Wheatley, engineer. Until water-borne sewage disposal became general domestic refuse was used as urban manure. From the 1890s the refuse was incinerated. This shows the works from the west. As in all these works, an unusually tall brick chimney was provided to carry the gaseous (and odorous) products of incineration away. The brick building on the left contained the furnaces in which the refuse was incinerated. These first-generation incinerators, and the Ibrox plant built in the 1920s, were phased out, and demolished, in the 1970s. They were replaced by a few very large central destructors, but in the 1980s these were in turn replaced by tipping refuse in landfill sites. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/68/31/21
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