View from W showing SSW front of number 64 with number 58 in background and numbers 70-72a in foreground

Description View from W showing SSW front of number 64 with number 58 in background and numbers 70-72a in foreground

Date 30/3/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 718029

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Stores & Offices, No 64 Waterloo Street, Glasgow This building was constructed in 1898 for Wright & Greig Ltd, distillers, to designs by J Chalmers, architect. It was commissioned during the Scotch whisky boom of the mid 1890s, but the collapse of the boom prevented the completion of this building, which was still unfinished in 1970. This shows the building from the south west, in the centre. It is fronted in red sandstone, and is elaborately detailed. To the right is Waterloo Street Post Office, the sorting office for the western part of the city centre. In 1970 the building was the technical headquarters of the Distillers' Co Ltd. Wright & Greig were whisky blenders as well as distillers. Their principal brand was 'Roderick Dhu' named after one of the characters in Sir Walter Scott's long poem 'The Lady of the Lake'. The entrance to these offices is flanked by sculptures of Roderick Dhu and Ellen Douglas, the heroine of the poem. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/9/19

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/718029

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