View looking ESE showing SSW front and part of WNW front of W block of foundry with canal on right
SC 712940
Description View looking ESE showing SSW front and part of WNW front of W block of foundry with canal on right
Date 1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 712940
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Victoria Foundry, Glasgow The Forth & Clyde Canal reached Glasgow in 1777, when a branch from Maryhill to Hamiltonhill was completed. The basin here was the Glasgow terminus until 1790. This foundry was established in about 1845, by G B Edington on a site immediately adjacent it the basin. This view shows the canal frontage of the foundry, on the left, looking east towards Hamiltonhill Basin. Note the masonry-fronted wharf in front of the arched cart entry at the far end of the single-storey building. To the right of the entry is the end of the two-storey office and warehouse block. The Edington family had been associated with the iron trades at least since the 1780s. George, the promoter of this foundry was a partner in Thomas Edington & Sons of the Phoenix Foundry, Garscube Road in 1844, and presumably decided to set up on his own account, perhaps stimulated by the railway boom. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/69/54/11
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