View from SW showing ENE front
SC 768357
Description View from SW showing ENE front
Date 1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 768357
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Warehouse, No 63 Carlton Place, Glasgow This shows the South Portland Street frontage of the building from the south-west. The architect has done his best, with continuous balcony at first-floor level, and a rather crude balustrade, to relieve the bulk of this large block, but has not been entirely successful. Glasgow was renowned in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the scale and variety of its wholesale warehouses. Many of the larger ones allowed the customers of retailers to visit their premises with a 'line' to choose goods with the retailers' mark-up credited to the businesses concerned. This warehouse was built in 1908 for Finnie & Co, wholesale ironmongers, and designed by H Campbell. It is a typical Glasgow commercial building of the period, built of red sandstone, and is much taller than neighbouring buildings. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/53/4
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