View from W showing SSW front of The Citizen Building with Anchor Line Buildings in background and part of Clydesdale Bank Headquarters in foreground

Description View from W showing SSW front of The Citizen Building with Anchor Line Buildings in background and part of Clydesdale Bank Headquarters in foreground

Date 1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 710253

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content The Citizen Building (Printing Works), No 24 St Vincent Place, Glasgow This works was built in 1885-7 for James Hedderwick & Sons, publishers of the Glasgow Evening Citizen, contractors to H M Stationery Office, and general printers and publishers. The building was designed by T L Watson, architect, and was one of the first in the city centre to be built of red sandstone. This shows in the centre the street frontage of the building from the south-west, with its richly ornamented façade. To the left is the Clydesdale Bank Head Office, and to the right the headquarters of the Anchor Line. The Citizen building was in 1969 occupied as commercial offices. This building, like other newspaper offices of the period, was sited to use men and boys to distribute newspapers through the city centre, and to send bundles of papers by rail to newsagents further afield. This office was close to Queen Street Station, and not far from the other city-centre terminals. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/31/1

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