viceroy wrote:I have a feeling that this building in Ashton Lane was the original premises of the Barr and Stroud optical works and that the 1903 picture is in fact a group photograph of the employees. Can anybody verify this? Barr and Stroud were a very famous Glasgow company who eventually moved to the Anniesland area [Crow Road, I think]. A number of years ago they moved again, to a new building opposite the Southern General Hospital. But I don't think they are called Barr and Stroud any more.
The building was indeed opccupied by Barr & Stroud from 1894, although they moved to their Caxton Street/Crow Road premises in 1903, so the photo may be Barr & Stroud employees or it could be employees of the new business that moved in after Barr & Stroud, but i suspect it's the former.