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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 768708
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/768708
NS56SE 76 584 646
Engineering works, 13-23 Tradeston Street and 46 Centre Street, built 1858-60 for Randolph, Elder & Co, by W Spence, architect. An L-plan block with the Centre Street end four storeys high and 5 bays wide with windows in pairs. The wooden beams and floors were supported by cast-iron columns and wrought-iron suspension rods depending from the roof trusses. The Tradeston Street block, which had massive rockj-faced masonry Egyptian frontages to Tradeston Street and Kingston Street, was of one storey with two wide and high arched doorways. The block had heavy built-up wooden beams for the former travelling crane supported on brick piers and cast-iron columns. Between the four storey and tradeston Street portions was the extraordinary single storey part, where the built up beams supported side galleries and the roof as well as the crane. Demolished 1970.
J R Hume 1974.
