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View from NNW showing NNE and WNW fronts
SC 785422
Description View from NNW showing NNE and WNW fronts
Date 31/3/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 785422
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Greenock Custom House, Custom House Place, Greenock, Inverclyde This shows the north side of the building from the north-west. The monumental Classical style was then considered appropriate for major public buildings. This, the entrance front, faces the Steamboat Quay, rebuilt between 1809 and 1822, and used by the first Clyde steamers. By 1971 the trade of Greenock was comparatively light, and this building was under-used. It was completely remodelled internally in the 1980s by the Property Services Agency as a modern office to deal with Value Added Tax (VAT), and other customs and excise business. The port of Greenock was, before the deepening of the River Clyde made Glasgow a major port, the greatest trading centre in the west of Scotland. Its custom house was built in 1818, to designs by William Burn, on a scale, and with a grandeur commensurate with the trade of the port. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/23/11
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/785422
File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap
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