View from ESE showing remains of ENE and part of SSE fronts

Description View from ESE showing remains of ENE and part of SSE fronts

Date 23/1/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 773522

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Cooperage, Murray Street, Paisley, Renfrewshire This shows the works from the south-east, with Murray Street on the left and Mackean Street on the right. The single-storeyed walls to the left, with their blocked windows, look like the remains of weaving sheds. The complex had recently been used as a cooperage, but was disused in 1971. This complex is on the edge of what was in effect a late Victorian industrial estate to the north west of Paisley's town centre, consisting of Macdowall Street, Murray Street and Mackean Street. The area still retains that character, and is now known as the Murray Business District. The history of this cooperage is obscure. The character of the buildings surviving in 1971 suggests that it may have been a weaving factory, with single-storeyed weaving sheds, and a four-storeyed preparation block. In 1924 it was apparently owned by W Caldwell & Co, drysalters and gum manufacturers. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/4/22

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/773522

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap