View looking SE from retort house showing main destructor building of refuse destructor

Description View looking SE 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 718222

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 coal store from the top of the vertical-retort house, with the Kilbirnie Street refuse disposal depot on the left. The area below the elevated sidings was used for storing reserves of coal, but the locomotive and wagon in this view are being used to remove spent iron oxide from the purifiers. 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 H35/70/14/31

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/718222

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