Archaeology Notes

Event ID 701992

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS56SE 72.00 centred 58180 63670

NS56SE 72.01 NS 58165 63630 Gasholder

NS56SE 72.02 NS 58220 63615 Gasholder

NS56SE 72.03 NS 58175 63525 Gasholder

NS56SE 72.04 NS 58198 63465 Water Meter House (in Maxwell Road)

For adjacent Rosehill Chemical Works, see NS56SE 175.

Tradeston Gas Holder Station [NAT]

(at NS 5817 6367)

OS 1:1250 map, 1982.

Tradeston Gasworks, 95 Kilbirnie St, built originally 1835-9 for Glasgow Gas Light Co (£20,000), and rebuilt 1869-74, 1924 and 1946-55. The works were closed officially on 31 March 1970. The General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Rly intersects the works.

To the N is the retort house, of red brick, four storeys high, and coke store, reinforced concrete, five storeys high. There is a set of four condensors with cross water tubes, scrubbers, and foursets of steam-driven exhausters, two with engines by R Laidlaw and Son (1887-9). On the S side are the purifier houses, with Belfast roofs, the main coal store, and three of the four gasholders. The largest (Number one) was built by Barrowfield Ironworks in 1922, and rebuilt in 1928. Numbers two and three are similar in style, the latter being built in 1886 by Clayton. Number four, built by Barrowfield in 1897, is behind the offices on the N side, and was used for water gas storage.

A large brick and steel coal store in Gourock St was added in 1913 (£12,160), and there was a chemical works at Tradeston.

J R Hume 1974.