View from ENE showing gasholders and bed of Monkland Canal

Description View from ENE showing gasholders and bed of Monkland Canal

Date 4/1/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 772714

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Provan Gas Works, Glasgow This shows the two large gas holders, probably installed when the works was first built, and each 85m in diameter, on the right. The track in the foreground is the bed of the Monkland Canal, drained and piped in the mid-1960s. The canal had been disused since the 1930s. After the introduction of natural gas in the 1970s the reforming plant was dismantled, and the works is now just a holder station. The two very large holders seen here are complemented by a smaller on to the north. The route of the canal is now covered by the M8 Monkland Motorway. This works was built in 1900-4 for Glasgow Corporation Gas Department, and designed by William Foulis, engineer. It was greatly extended after 1919. It was a vertical retort coal-gas works, and operated into the 1960s. It was then converted to make gas by reforming naphtha from oil refineries. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/1/24

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap