Site type DYE WORKS, PAINT FACTORY
Canmore ID 203149
Site Number NS56SE 1425
NGR NS 5830 6440
Council GLASGOW, CITY OF
Parish GOVAN (CITY OF GLASGOW)
Former Region STRATHCLYDE
Former District CITY OF GLASGOW
Former County LANARKSHIRE

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Tradeston Street
Clydesdale Paint, Colour & Oil Works, No 104-106, 1888, Hugh & David Barclay. Classical pediment with stag¿s head trademark of Blacklock, McArthur & Co. on four-storey ashlar block. Behind is a two-storey sheet-iron-floored workshop supported on cast-iron columns. No 118, 1900, W F McGibbon. Venetian red brick warehouse extension to Clydesdale Paint Works, with terracotta stag¿s head trademark plaques and corner tower. This was built in front of a three-storey varnish factory in the yard, 1896, W F McGibbon. The Point, 161-171 West Street, 1876. Two ashlar office and sample room buildings acquired by the Clydesdale Paint Works from James Mills, a dyer. Cart entry to yard, mansard added to one, 1896, also by McGibbon.


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

Archaeological Notes

NS56SE 1425 5830 6440.

Notes and Activities

Hume, J R (1974) The industrial archaeology of Glasgow, Glasgow
Page(s): 244 H187 Held at RCAHMS D.12.4.IND

Small, S (2008) Greater Glasgow: an illustrated architectural guide
Held at RCAHMS Quick