Timchilli wrote:Looking to the following photo taken in 1970, with the construction of the M8 well under way, am I correct in assuming that the yellow dot demarcates where the warehouse of James Ferrigan (Chief Architect of the SCWS) stands? If not, where is Ferrigan's edifice?
I was also under the impression that the SCWS building (red dot) had a similar, neighbouring building to the right of this photo (where the legs of the M8 overpass have been set).
In fact, this photo shows the SCWS building to the left, and this other building to the right - anyone know what it was?Tim
Tim:the building located where you have the yellow dot, was 71, Morrison St. and was the head office of the SCWS Grocery Dept. There were two parts to the building separated by a lane way: the part further removed from Morrison St. was the Storage Dept.; the part with the frontage on Morrison St housed the office of the General manager and all the Grocery buyers' offices on the second floor, and a varity of grocery depts on each of five floors. (One of these grocery departments was the Cheese Dept, and this will explain the " stuff ouzing out of floorboards" mentioned by Delmont.).
I don't know anything about James Ferrigan, but I do know the building with the red dot was the head office of the SCWS at 95 Morrison St. and contained the board room and all the financial offices on the second floor, as well as a variety of departments on the upper floors (Toy Dept, Jewelry Dept., for example). The ground floor of the back end of the building was taken over by the Fruit Dept after the original Fruit Dept, on the other side of Morrison St, got a direct hit from a land mine in the Blitz.
There was no "...similar, neighbouring building to the right of this photo".
There was a low one-storey building immediately west of 95 Morrison St. This was the Fodder Dept of the SCWS, and there was a temporary corrugated-tin, one-floor, storage building built here as well. Just south of this 'tin' building was a" a big block of mansion like tenements." as mentioned by Soceroo--this was just across the road from the west side of 95 Morrison St. at the west end of Wallace St.
There was a "corner of a tenement block " at the side of the Clyde, and it was, as Schiehallion mentions, closer to the Clyde than 95 Morrison St. This was right across the road (forget its name, but it becomes eventually, Paisley Road West.) from the SCWS Fodder Dept.
A great picture. Hope this helps you. Cheers, Dugald.