Tobacco Warehouse

 Tobacco Warehouse James Watt Street by John Baird 1854, an incredibly drab building. 

BELL STREET WAREHOUSE FROM WATSON ST

 Bell Street warehouse [now apartment's] from Watson Street.

Warehouse

 

4-storey 9-bay simple classical former Co-Operative drapery warehouse. Predominantly granite to ground floor and red sandstone ashlar to upper floors of principal elevation, red brick to other elevations. Base course, cill courses, eaves cornice, stepped stylised parapet. Canted oriels to outer bays. Predominantly plate glass timber sash and case windows. INTERIOR: ground floor has large cast-iron columns with composite-inspired capitals with floral motifs.

This simple building lies in a wider area which has changed dramatically within the last 50 years. The block comprising Coburg Street, Oxford Street, Bridge Street and Norfolk Street is one of the few remaining blocks which has its near-original footprint. 12-20 Coburg Street's interest lies in its contribution to Glasgow's retail history. The entire block was packed with drapery warehouses in the early 20th century and now few reminders of that concentration of the industry remain. The Post Office Directory for 1910-11 notes that there were drapers, hatters, tailors, and hosiers in the immediate area, as well as a blouse specialist, boot factory and cap maker. The Kinning Park Co-operative Society's registered office was at 12 Coburg Street in 1910-11.

The Kinning Park Co-operative Society had three buildings in the block of which 12-20 Coburg Street and 61 Bridge Street survive . The first and main warehouse immediately to the north of 61 Bridge Street has been demolished. It is likely that all these buildings were linked at one time. 12-20 Coburg Street formed the first addition to the main warehouse in 1910 (Bruce & Hay's plans are dated 8th April 1909) in 1935. (Historic Scotland)

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https://www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk/details/908067

Bell Street Warehouses

05-169 Bell Street, built in 1883 by the Glasgow and South Western Railway as a bonded warehouse for Whisky.

Now converted to apartments.
 

Albert Drive

 

19th century warehouse at 100 Albert Drive, quite clearly a well looked after building.

It was originally used as a laundry and carpet beating.