saw022926 SCOTLAND (1949). Glasgow, general view, showing Alley and MacLellan Ltd. Sentinel Works, Jessie Street and Glasgow Green. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north.
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Title | [SAW022926] Glasgow, general view, showing Alley and MacLellan Ltd. Sentinel Works, Jessie Street and Glasgow Green. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north. |
Reference | SAW022926 |
Date | 1949 |
Link | Canmore Collection item 1269273 |
Place name | |
Parish | GOVAN (CITY OF GLASGOW) |
District | CITY OF GLASGOW |
Country | SCOTLAND |
Easting / Northing | 259666, 662502 |
Longitude / Latitude | -4.2410133010177, 55.83533242673 |
National Grid Reference | NS597625 |
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Location of 2ndWW barrage balloon operating site. |
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Location of 2ndWW barrage balloon operating site. Approx location of 2ndWW barrage balloon operating site. |
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Location of a 2ndWW barrage balloon operating site. |
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Greenhead Works, No 45 Greenhead Street, Glasgow This works was founded in 1859 by R & J Dick, gutta-percha manufacturers. The oldest part of the complex was Bartholomew's cotton-spinning mill, built c.1840, and purchased by the Dick brothers in 1859. This shows the frontage to Greenhead Street. The four-storeyed block was probably built in 1872-3, and the block to the right in 1886. These blocks were built to resemble tenements as they face Glasgow Green, an important public park. Gutta-percha is a close relation of India rubber, but is plastic rather than elastic. The Dick brothers used it to make the soles of canvas shoes, golf balls and other moulded products. When they retired they gave the business to their senior employees. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN. |
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Tuesday 6th of October 2015 08:09:06 PM |
Side view of Templetons Carpet Factory |
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Bridgeton Cross |
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Abercrombie Street, Calton |
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St. Margaret's Church, Polmadie Road.
(See pic) Now in a state of disrepair like many buildings in Glasgow. |
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Monday 5th of October 2015 10:10:41 PM |
Polmadie Bridge (see pic) This view from the south-east was taken on 30 May 1962 from the bridge carrying Polmadie Road over the main Glasgow-Carlisle railway, and lines for local use. The locomotives are of the rebuilt 'Royal Scot' and 'Black 5' classes, used for express and mixed traffic trains respectively. The motive power depot is a short distance to the south-east of the locomotives seen here, on the other side of Polmadie Road. After steam traction ceased it was used by diesel locomotives, and is now used for the maintenance of main-line rolling stock. Polmadie Motive Power Depot was the largest steam locomotive shed in Scotland. It was originally built in about 1879, by the Caledonian Railway, and was completely rebuilt by the London, Midland & Scottish Railway in the 1940s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN. |
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The photo shows the interior of the original machine and erecting shops from the south-west. These steel-framed bays lie behind an arched brick facade. By 1970 the building was being used as a warehouse for fork-lift trucks. The Sentinel steam wagon, made here, was so successful that the firm moved its production in 1916 to a new purpose-built factory at Shrewsbury. Thereafter this works concentrated, in peacetime, on compressor manufacture. During both World Wars it made munitions. This works was built in 1903-14 for Alley & McLellan, engineers, who had been in Polmadie Road since about 1880. They originally specialised in building small ships which were trial-assembled at this inland site, then broken down for shipment. This new works was built to make steam lorries and air compressors. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN. |
Billy Turner |
Monday 5th of October 2015 07:35:12 PM |
Scope and Content Sentinel Works, Nos 63-89 Jessie Street, Glasgow, South Lanarkshire This works was built from 1903-14 for Alley & McLellan Ltd, who had been founded in Polmadie Road in about 1880. The firm made air compressors, valves, marine auxiliaries and shallow-draught ships, which were dismantled for shipment. This shows the frontage of the works to Jessie Street, from the south-west. The four-storeyed building on the left was designed by Archibald Leitch, architect, as offices and pattern shop, and built in 1903. It was the first large reinforced concrete building in Glasgow. This works became famous as the place where the Sentinel steam lorry was developed in 1904-6, and where it was made until a works was established in 1916-17 at Shrewsbury specifically to make these vehicles. The parent firm was taken over by Beardmores, and made air compressors until the early 1960s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN. |
Billy Turner |
Monday 5th of October 2015 07:21:09 PM |
Ex Caledonian Railway and LMS Polmadie Locomotive Depot. Shed code 66A
The locomotives visible have the "BRITISH RAILWAYS" lettering on the tender. |
Jim Howie |
Friday 31st of October 2014 10:29:31 AM |
Richmond Park |
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Rutherglen Bridge |
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Kings Bridge |
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Saturday 8th of December 2012 09:01:56 PM |
River Clyde |
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Saturday 8th of December 2012 09:01:00 PM |
Polmadie Road |
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Saturday 8th of December 2012 09:00:35 PM |
Jessie Street |
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Saturday 8th of December 2012 08:59:27 PM |
User Comment Contributions
If I am to believe Wikipedia, Alley and MacLellan began life in Polmadie Glasgow in about 1875. In that same year a small town [3000 persons] Municipal Council in New Zealand at Oamaru, undertook the design of a very inovative public water supply system. See; http://www.panoramio.com/user/1283331/tags/The%20Oamaru%20Borough%20Race and http://www.ipenz.org.nz/heritage/itemdetail.cfm?itemid=2360 The design of this water supply involved the initial supply of many tons of lead and probably upwards of 100 specialised cast iron valves and fittings and about 1300 12' long x 21/2 foot diameter (600mm) cast iron pipes - of 7/8" wall thickness for the falling mains, the pipeline down into town from the reservoir in the hills behind the town. The contract for all this casting work was let to Anderson's Engineering and Foundry, Christchurch NZ but it was too big an order for them to supply and they outsourced to Alley and MacLellan. The pipes were deliveredstarting in 1879 and as two other falling mains eacj of 1300 or so pipes were required, further orders were placed for pipes in 1881 and 1883. The work must have been valuable to the company. Every pipe is marked on the bell with the company name and date and the wall thickness plus the customer's name OWW "Oamaru Water Works" something that would be unheard of today for standard cast iron pipes. all pipes would have been delivered to New Zealand to land at the fledgling harbour/port of Oamaru, by sailing ship and at this time I have no idea how they would have been off-loaded nor transported to 7km up into the hills for laying 4 feet below the surface. The three pipe lines are in service still and will be for the forseeable future. Any researcher interested in more detail may contact me at; guyro42@gmail.com. The video shows me sectioning a piece of the pipe to expose the leaded joint for public display. Bruce Comfort |
Bruce Comfort, New Zealand |
Wednesday 25th of June 2014 10:21:40 AM |