View from SE showing ESE front

Description View from SE showing ESE front

Date c. 1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 767900

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Tobacco Pipe Works, Nos 26-42 Bain Street, Glasgow This shows the Bain Street frontage of the building, with the Moncur Street frontage to the left, seen from the south-east. The two-storeyed central section, with its large arched doorway, gave access to the kilns used for firing the pipes, which had gone by 1970. The manufacture of clay tobacco pipes was a Glasgow speciality, probably linked to the city's tobacco trade. The pipes were moulded by hand, by women workers, hence the large floor area required. Much of the output was exported. Most of the complex survives, and is being converted into flats. This large factory was built in 1876-7 for W White & Son, clay pipe makers, to designs by M Forsyth, architect. It was designed to be built in stone, but this could not be afforded, so brick was used instead. It consisted of three four-storeyed and attic blocks of moulding shops forming a U-plan, with kilns in the middle. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/52/12

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/767900

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap