View from SW showing chimney and SSE and WSW fronts of 2 bay office and house

Description View from SW showing chimney and SSE and WSW fronts of 2 bay office and house

Date 1/9/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 769092

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 from the south-west. The office and dwelling house are on the right, with the monopitch roof. The chimney served the boiler house, and is unusual in having a circular-section top on a square-section base. 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-storey 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 H35/70/55/2

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap