View from N showing WNW front of numbers 44-54 with part of numbers 68-72 in foreground

Description View from N showing WNW front of numbers 44-54 with part of numbers 68-72 in foreground

Date 30/3/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 718008

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Warehouses, Nos 44-72 James Watt Street, Glasgow Until the 1870s the Broomielaw and Anderston, Lancefield and Finnieston quays were the heart of Glasgow harbour, and the streets immediately to the north of the quays were largely occupied by warehouses. Grain imports, after the repeal of the Corn Laws in the 1840s, called for grain stores. This view, looking south east, shows the finest warehouse (Nos 44-54) in James Watt Street, built in 1861, with part of 68-72 James Watt Street, built in 1847-48, on the left. The 1861 building was constructed for Thomas Mann as grain and general free stores. In 1970 it was a bonded warehouse. James Watt Street has the finest group, architecturally speaking, of warehouses in Glasgow. At the time these were built classical architecture was particularly fashionable in Glasgow, hence the classical treatment of what were at the time prestigious buildings. Only the facades of the 1847-48 and 1861 blocks survive. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/9/2

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/718008

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