View from SSE showing SW and SE fronts of wooden cooling tower with part of retort house in right background

Description View from SSE showing SW and SE fronts of wooden cooling tower with part of retort house in right background

Date 4/5/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 718230

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 a wooden cooling tower for recycling water used for cooling in the condensers and in the vertical-retort house, part of which can be seen on the right. By the 1970s wooden cooling towers were fairly rare, and this was probably the last in Glasgow. 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 H35/70/15/5

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