General view looking NNE showing sawmills with gasholder in background

Description General view looking NNE showing sawmills with gasholder in background

Date 4/6/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 733251

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Muirhouse Sawmills, No 129 Maxwell Road, Glasgow These sawmills were built over the period 1886-98 for J Watt Torrance and Co, home and foreign timber merchants, sawmillers, and packing-box makers, importers of deals, railway sleepers, pitwood, hoops, boxwood etc. The Caledonian Railway's permanent way depot was, appropriately, next door. This shows the sawmills from the south, with stacks of sawn timber on the right. The taller building in the distance on the right is part of the permanent way depot. The railway on the left is the General Terminus branch, and the wagons in the foreground are for track ballast. In 1970 the sawmills were in the same ownership, and still apparently in the same line of business. The present status of the complex is not known, but the permanent way yard is still operating on a reduced scale. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/21/15

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/733251

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