Glasgow Pipe Foundry
Location type
WorksName and dates
Glasgow Pipe FoundryServed by the St Rollox Canal.
Description
This pipe works was opened at St Rollox by D Y Stewart & Co in 1847. The works produced cast iron water pipes, the pipes being cast vertically. Notable contracts were for water pipes for Montrose and Paisley. The works was on the north side of Charles Street and served a branch of the St Rollox Canal, the land being purchased from Charles Tennant & Co who built the canal. This allowed communication with Coatbridge via the Monkland Canal. The north side of the works was served by a siding from the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway which also reached Coatbridge and the many iron producing works there. The layout of this siding altered several times over the years, but in general each version was a siding on the south side of the line with access from the west. The works expanded to the include the south side of Charles Street (allowing the St Rollox Canal branch to be cut back to the south side of Charles Street).
Demolished 1966/7. Site is now a small industrial estate (north side of Charles Street) and high flats.
Tags
Pipe foundry Foundry| Nearby stations St Rollox [2nd] Glasgow (Townhead) Garngad Barnhill Springburn High Street Cowlairs Buchanan Street College [1st] Glasgow Queen Street Low Level Glasgow Queen Street High Level Alexandra Parade Bellgrove Buchanan Street [Subway] Gallowgate | Clyde Bottle Works St Rollox Flax Mills Inchbelly Works St Rollox Foundry Castle Street Coal Depot St Rollox Works St Rollox Cotton Mill St Rollox Malleable Iron Works Glasgow Corporation Cleansing Works Sidings Locomotive Sheds Junction St Rollox Canal Junction [Canal] Glasgow Iron Works Provan Hall Coal Depot [Canal] St Rollox Chemical Works Tourist/other Inchbelly Level Crossing |
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Chronology Dates
| / /1886 | St Rollox Canal Sir Charles [2nd] Tennant, on behalf of Charles Tennant & Co (St Rollox Chemical Works), and others including D Y Stewart & Company (Glasgow Pipe Foundry), start legal action to seek to reopen the canal to navigation, to make the other owners, landowners and parties using the the canal contribute to the costs. |
