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View from NNW showing part of NNW front of coke store with part of retort house in background
SC 718244
Description View from NNW showing part of NNW front of coke store with part of retort house in background
Date 4/5/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 718244
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 works from the main entrance in Kilbirnie Street, with what was probably the original boundary wall of 1835-39. Behind it is the coke store, probably c1924, and behind that the vertical-retort house, presumably built in 1946-55. 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 H35/70/15/18
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