View from W showing NNW and SSW fronts of office block

Description View from W showing NNW and SSW fronts of office block

Date 4/1/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 772577

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Clyde Structural Iron Co (Clydeside Ironworks), South Street, Glasgow This shows the street frontage of the works from the south-west. The flat-roofed office block appears to be a mid-20th-century structure, possibly a replacement after blitz damage. Behind it are the steel-framed workshops, probably the originals. This part of South Street was laid out after the opening in 1896 of the Lanarkshire & Dumbartonshire Railway's high-level passenger line parallel to the River Clyde. At the same time a low-level goods tramway was laid along the street, so that sidings could be laid into the various works and yards in the street. This works was built in about 1898 for the Clyde Structural Iron Co, iron roof and bridge builders, later renamed the Clyde Structural Steel Co. The firm was established to take advantage of the growing demand for steel-framed workshops, especially on Clydeside. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/1/34

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap