View from SW showing WNW front of numbers 44-80

Description View from SW showing WNW front of numbers 44-80

Date 30/3/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 718012

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 north east, shows the finest warehouse (Nos 44-54) in James Watt Street, built in 1861, with 68-72 James Watt Street, built in 1847-48, beyond. The 1861 block, built for Thomas Mann as grain and general free stores, may have been designed by Charles Wilson a leading Glasgow architect. 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 H35/70/9/5

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/718012

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