View from W showing SSW front and part of WNW front

Description View from W showing SSW front and part of WNW front

Date 30/3/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 718043

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Printing Works, Nos 46-50 North Hanover Street, Glasgow This works was founded in about 1871 by Gilmour & Dean, engravers, lithographers and steam printers. The building in this view was constructed in 1913 to designs by Clifford & Lunan, architects. It is faced with red sandstone on the North Hanover Street frontage. This shows the entrance to the building, and its frontage to Frederick Lane, faced in red terra-cotta brick. The next building along the lane was also part of Gilmour & Dean's works, and at the far end is a calender works built in 1875-76 for James Anderson & Co. This building was latterly, until its closure in 1968, the offices of Bairds & Scottish Steels Ltd, owners of Gartsherrie Iron Works, and Waverley & Northburn steelworks, all in Coatbridge. It was demolished in the 1970s and became part of the site of a large office development. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/9/28

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/718043

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