View from E showing SSE fronts of office bay and house
SC 769091
Description View from E showing SSE fronts of office bay and house
Date 1/9/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 769091
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Oil & Tallow Works, No 270 Westmuir Street, Glasgow This shows the frontage to the lane off Quarrymuir Street. The office and dwelling house are in the centre, with the monopitch roof, an unusual feature for the period. The office block and the panelled wall beyond are faced with terracotta brick. Glasgow's slaughterhouse in Bellgrove produced large volumes of animal fat which, when refined, produced tallow. The fact that the works also refined oil suggests that the tallow and oil were being used as lubricants. The firm also had works in Vinegarhill Street, Camlachie. This works was built in about 1909 for Cardno & Co, oil and tallow refiners. It consisted of a large single-storeyed block with a plain frontage to Westmuir Street, extending through to a lane off Quarrymuir Street, where there was an office and dwelling house. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/55/1
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