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View showing cast iron railing of exhauster house
SC 739506
Description View showing cast iron railing of exhauster house
Date 29/7/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 739506
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Old exhauster house, Tradeston Gas Works, No 95 Kilbirnie Street, Glasgow This shows the stairways leading to the exhauster house. The dignified cast-iron railings are indicative of the pride that Glasgow Corporation had in providing public services. The pipe is a gas main from the post-war vertical retort house. Exhausters were used in coal-gas manufacture to draw the newly-made gas out of the retorts in which the coal was being distilled. This house contained the two original low-speed exhauster sets, probably of the 1880s, and a post-war high-speed set, all steam-driven. Tradeston Gas Works was founded in 1843 by the Glasgow City & Suburban Gas Co. It was later taken over by Glasgow Corporation Gas Department and rebuilt. After World War II a new vertical retort installation was built, but this exhauster house was retained. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/37/18
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