View from NNW showing doorway on NNW front
SC 710285
Description View from NNW showing doorway on NNW front
Date 1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 710285
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Scottish Co-op Society (Warehouses), Nos 115-9 Paisley Road, Glasgow These buildings were constructed between 1872 and 1876 for the Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society, as the first part of a large complex of warehouses and offices covering several blocks in this part of Glasgow. The Society also had a large number of workshops in other parts of the city. This shows the entrance in Paisley Road to the 1876 block. The rather idiosyncratic neoclassical doorway is the first use by the Society of architecture to define its intention of rivalling capitalist business in aspiration, a feature of much of its subsequent building. The Society was founded to buy goods in bulk to sell on to retail cooperative societies, and these warehouses were built to house these goods. Later the Society turned to making its own goods. It declined from the 1960s, and eventually became part of the English Cooperative Wholesale Society. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/69/31/32
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