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Interior View showing floor
SC 713013
Description Interior View showing floor
Date 22/10/1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 713013
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Weaving Factory (Power-loom), No 11 Graham Square, Glasgow This was one of the first large power-loom weaving factories in Glasgow, built in about 1825 for G Grant Junior. It was a six-storey and attic building, with wooden floors supported on timber beams and cast-iron columns. It was very lightly constructed, and had tie-rods at each floor level. This shows the interior of the fifth floor, with a plaster ceiling. Note that the longitudinal beams are threaded through slots in the column heads. The columns reduce in diameter from floor to floor to floor up the building. At this top full-height floor they are notably slender. G Grant and Son 'manufacturers by power' continued to use this factory until about 1845, and it was still a power-loom weaving factory in 1881. By 1893 it was a corset, umbrella and shirt factory, and in 1924 a hosiery factory, and it remained a textile factory into the 1960s. It was demolished in the 1970s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/69/56/31
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