View from WSW showing SSW and part of WNW fronts of factory with part of church in backround and no 118 Ingram Steet in foreground

Description View from WSW showing SSW and part of WNW fronts of factory with part of church in backround and no 118 Ingram Steet in foreground

Date 1/2/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 774364

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Clothing factory, No 12 Montrose Street, Glasgow This shows the factory from the south-west, with Ingram Street to the right, and Montrose Street to the left. By 1971 it was used as offices. The firm's warehouse is out of sight on the right. The building on the left was the first home of the Glasgow School of Art. This was a rare Glasgow example of a large clothing factory. Stewart & Macdonald was one of a number of Glasgow suppliers of goods to retailers throughout Scotland. Customers could be given a 'line' which allowed them to choose items the retail profit on which would be passed on to the retailers concerned. This large red-sandstone-faced block was built in 1898 for Stewart & Macdonald, wholesale warehousemen, and designed by James Thomson. It had an underground link to the firm's warehouse on the other side of Ingram Street. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/7/39

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