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Note
Date 5 May 2017
Event ID 1022032
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1022032
Provan Chemical Works was built to process the bye products of the adjacent Provan Gasworks (inaugurated 1904). Owned by Glasgow Corporation, it was leased to private contractors (until c.1920).
The chemical works were demolished once the Provan site ceased to produce gas from coal (1970s) and to become a gas holder station for natural or North Sea gas. The chemical works were still partly in existence by c.1974 as mentioned in John Hume's 'The industrial archaeology of Glasgow'. The site is now cleared.
Provan No.3 gasholder (1970) sits partly on what were the pitch beds at the southern end of the site.
Information from HES Survey and Recording Section (MMD), 5 May 2017.
JR Hume (1974); Corporation of Glasgow Gas Department (c.1912).
