View from NE showing ESE front (Buchanan Street front) of printing works with part of 71-79 Buchanan Street in foreground

Description View from NE showing ESE front (Buchanan Street front) of printing works with part of 71-79 Buchanan Street in foreground

Date 1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 710224

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Glasgow Herald Building (Printing Works), Nos 63-9 Buchanan Street, Glasgow This works was founded in 1865 by George Outram and Sons, printers and publishers of the 'Glasgow Herald'. The buildings extant in 1969 were constructed in four stages, the Buchanan Street block in 1879-80, the Mitchell Street block in 1893-95, and the blocks in between in 1897 and 1909. This shows the Buchanan Street building from the north-east the building with the corners in the middle. This was designed by James Sellars, probably Glasgow's leading architect at the time. Latterly it housed the administrative offices, but it probably originally housed the compositors and presses. The firm moved to the former 'Scottish Daily Express' buildings in the 1970s, and this building became general offices. The buildings at the rear lay empty until the 1990s, when they were in part converted into a centre for architecture to designs by Page and Park, architects. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/30/4

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/710224

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