View from NW showing part of W front of City of Glasgow Grain Mills

Description View from NW showing part of W front of City of Glasgow Grain Mills

Date 6/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 733264

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content City of Glasgow Grain Mills & Port Dundas Sugar Refinery, Nos 186-260 North Speirs Wharf, Glasgow These mills were founded in about 1851 by John Currie and Co, presumably as a consequence of the repeal of the Corn Laws, which made it economic to import wheat from the Continent, in this case via the Forth and Clyde Canal. The mills had 20 pairs of stones driven by a steam engine. This shows the south end of this large range of buildings from the north-west. The taller building was probably constructed in the late 1850s for storing grain, and the five-storey range beyond is the original milling and storage range of c1851. The stone grinding of flour was made obsolete when roller milling was introduced in the late 1870s. This mill remained in use by the Craighall Milling Co for many years. Part of the warehouses were used as a bond by 1881, and by the 1960s the whole range was. In the 1980s it was converted to flats. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/22/40

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