View from NNE showing ESE front of numbers 45-63 with numbers 29-43 in background and part of numbers 65-69 in foreground

Description View from NNE showing ESE front of numbers 45-63 with numbers 29-43 in background and part of numbers 65-69 in foreground

Date 1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 710230

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Workshop and Warehouse, Nos 45-63 Robertson Street, Glasgow This building was built in 1869-70 for George McLellan & Co, engineers, ironmongers, and steel merchants, whose works was in Maryhill. By 1881 it was in the hands of Dempster, Moore & Co, who were in the same line of business, and it was later occupied by Buck & Hickman Ltd. This shows this two-storey building from the north-east. The front of the ground floor was occupied by shops and offices. To the rear is the warehouse, with a central well, and a travelling crane running along it to hoist heavy items to the upper level, and to load lorries. Dempster, Moore & Co were, apart from being engineers' ironmongers, machine-tool factors, and perhaps makers. Buck & Hickman, an American firm, stocked an unrivalled range of tools and ironmongery for engineers. They still occupied this building in 1969, but it has since been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/30/10

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/710230

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