View from NW showing WSW front and part of NNW front of Jam and Confectionery Works, Glasgow with 315 North Woodside Road in foreground and offices in background

Description View from NW showing WSW front and part of NNW front of Jam and Confectionery Works, Glasgow with 315 North Woodside Road in foreground and offices in background

Date 16/2/1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 698938

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Jam & Confectionery Works, No 17 Herbert Street, Glasgow This warehouse was extensively rebuilt after a fire in 1907 for Thomas G Bishop of Cooper & Co, who were in 1902 tea merchants, grocers, Italian warehousemen, and manufacturers, who had three retail branches, all large and prestigious. Their products were also sold through other outlets. This shows the building from the north-east. The frontage, of red terra-cotta brick, has an American-style monumentality. The flat roof and the context of its reconstruction suggest that it has a reinforced-concrete frame, like the same company's warehouse and sausage factory in Bishop Street of c.1913. By the late 1960s the day of the high-class grocer's shop, serving the wealthy middle-classes, had almost gone, and Cooper & Co Ltd had become multiple grocers serving a wider market. The firm still used this building, but as a central store, not a factory. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/11/14

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/698938

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