Interior View showing purifier house
SC 718237
Description Interior View showing purifier house
Date 4/5/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 718237
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 interior of one of the purifier boxes are on the first floor of the purifier house, with its lid removed. When in use the box was filled with iron oxide in the form of bog ore. The pipes seen here distributed the gas through the oxide, which removed hydrogen sulphide by oxidising it to sulphur. 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 H35/70/15/11
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