Glasgow, Broomielaw
No Class (Event)
Site Name Glasgow, Broomielaw
Classification No Class (Event)
Canmore ID 131010
Site Number NS56SE 177
NGR NS 586 649
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/131010
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Glasgow (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS56SE 177 586 649
NS 586 649 Construction of a casino by Stakis plc at the W side of the N end of George V Bridge, between Oswald and Robertson Streets. A watching brief of the excavation of the foundations retrieved dumps of glass and ceramic manufacturing waste and the timber piles of an earlier quay line. A large area on the waterfront itself had been disturbed by subsidence and the construction of the 1974 Clydeside Walkway.
Both the glass and ceramic waste date to the mid-19th century. The glass waste is thought to have originated at the Clyde Street Glassworks which stood at the corner of Jamaica street and was demolished in c1840.
The ceramic waste consists of white earthenwares. Biscuit-fired sherds, some moulded or sponge painted or with transfers applied, are dominant and around 1200 sherds altogether, and around 250 pieces of kiln furniture and fragments of saggers have been retrieved.
Sponsor: Stakis plc.
F Baker 1995.
