Interior View of retort house showing gas offtakes

Description Interior View of retort house showing gas offtakes

Date 4/5/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 718213

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Tradeston Gasworks, No 95 Kilbirnie Street, Glasgow This gas works was originally built in 1835-39 by the Glasgow Gas Light Co. It was taken over by Glasgow Corporation Gas Department in 1869 and rebuilt and enlarged. Between 1946 and 1955 it was substantially rebuilt, but parts of earlier rebuildings survived. This shows the gas offtakes from the vertical retorts. These operated as in a horizontal-retort installation, with the gas passing through water in a 'foul main' to remove some of the tar and ammoniacal liquor before going through the rest of the purification cycle. Tradeston continued in operation until the late 1960s, and was still intact in 1970. It was the last of Glasgow's coal-gas works to operate. It was demolished in the early 1970s, apart from its large gas holders which were retained to store natural gas. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/14/23

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