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Recording Your Heritage Online

Event ID 566126

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Recording Your Heritage Online

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/566126

Sentinel Works, 61 Jessie Street, 1903, Brand & Lithgow, with Archibald Leitch, engineer

Four-storey clear-span patternmaking shop and offices for Alley & MacLellan, engineers. The earliest reinforced concrete building in Glasgow, using the Mouchel-Hennebique ferro-concrete system. Concrete panel walls with classical cornice, large metal windows and flat roof, anticipating the Modern Movement. Cantilevered rear fire escape stair carried on ornate cast-iron brackets. A disgraceful shell, derelict since the 1960s and at risk from continuing vandalism.

Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

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