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View from SSW showing W and S fronts of purifier house
SC 733249
Description View from SSW showing W and S fronts of purifier house
Date 4/6/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 733249
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Tradeston Gasworks, No 95 Kilbirnie Street, Glasgow This works was founded in 1835-39 by the Glasgow Gas Light Co to serve the south side of the city. The original works was rebuilt and enlarged on several occasions notably in 1869-74, after the takeover by Glasgow Corporation, in 1924, and in 1946-55. This shows the purifier house, on the western edge of the site, from the south-west. The older section, to the left, probably dates from the 1924 reconstruction, and the extension to the right from the 1946-55 rebuilding. The gas holder on the right was built in 1922 by the Barrowfield Ironworks. The works had closed by 1970, and the purifier boxes in these buildings were being emptied prior to scrapping. Tradeston was the most modern of Glasgow's coal gas works, and the last to operate. It was demolished in the early 1970s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/21/13
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