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View looking ESE from retort house showing main destructor building of refuse destructor
SC 718221
Description View looking ESE from retort house showing main destructor building of refuse destructor
Date 4/5/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 718221
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Refuse Disposal Works, Nos 55-59 Kilbirnie Street, Glasgow This was one of a number of works built in the 1880s and 90s after the introduction of water-borne sewage disposal had removed the manurial value from domestic waste, making it impossible to sell. These works used incineration to make the material harmless. This shows the works from the top of the vertical-retort house at Tradeston Gas Works. The destructor was built from 1882, to designs by A W Wheatley. On the left is the roadway for refuse carts. The incinerators were in the left-hand bays, and the ash was loaded into railway wagons under the right-hand bay. This first generation of refuse-disposal works operated until about 1970 when they were replaced by large modern destructor, one at Polmadie and the other at Dawsholm. These have in turn been replaced by dumping in landfill sites. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/14/30
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/718221
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