An access panel in the Broomhill area of Glasgow produced by the Lion Foundry in Kirkintilloch. This foundry was established in the early 1880s by a number of former employees of Walter MacFarlane's Saracen Foundry in the north of Glasgow.
Originally named Jackson, Brown, Hudson and Cuthbert, they became known as the Lion Foundry in 1885. It closed almost a century later in the 1980s.
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A heavily worn Automatic Telephone Manufacturing Company access cover from George Square in Glasgow. It most likely dates from between 1911 and 1932 (when the company changed its name to the Automatic Telephone and Electric Company). Despite the company's name, it's part of an old automated traffic light system. The font for the ATM logo is just so wonderfully Art Nouveau.
Time for some Glasgow geekiness. This is a rarely encountered Partick Electricity Supply access cover on North Gardner Street in the West End of Glasgow. As far as I can work out, this refers to a local electricity network run by the Burgh of Partick between 1899 and 1912, when the burgh lost its independence and was absorbed into Glasgow.
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A branded Victorian or Edwardian access cover on Minvera Street in the Finnieston area of Glasgow. The names featured on such covers are usually either a local plumber or the foundry which made it.
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Cast iron calling cards. These old access covers from the streets of Glasgow all feature the name of the plumbing company which installed them. While no longer common, you can find similar ones advertising different plumbing and building companies throughout the city. Most of the businesses no longer exist, but the one in the bottom left, John Richmond and Co Ltd, is still trading today, some 135 years after it was established in 1885.
Old branded access cover in the Govanhill area of Glasgow. A cursory search hasn't located R Morton and Son, but I presume they were plumbers. A deeper dive into the records should confirm this, but the site of their premises at 277 Ballater Street is now occupied by the Gorbals Leisure Centre.
Love the Art Nouveau style logo on this Automatic Telephone Manufacturing Company access cover from George Square in Glasgow. Despite the company's name, this access cover is associated with early traffic light systems.
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What I think is William Borland and Co manhole cover fron the grounds of Gartnavel Hospital in the West of Glasgow. The address of 90 Dunlop Street is more celarly visible than the name, and the Borland and Co were based there in the early 1900s. They made and installed hearths, ranges and stoves for cooking and heating, so I presume this was part of the hospital's heating system.
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In 1909, he took the somewhat unexpected step of becoming a partner in the Govan Skating Rink in Summerton Road. This was one of three roller skating rinks which opened in Govan in 1909 during a short-lived craze for the pastime. While he died in 1924, William Anderson Ltd continued on until at least the 1960s.
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William Anderson became one of the first registered plumbers in Glasgow after an accreditation scheme was introduced across Scotland in 1888, and in 1894 he became a founding member of the Glasgow Building Trades Exchange (a professional trade body which helped standardise contracts and solve disputes) along with the architect John Keppie, the engineer William Arrol and the painter R.J. Bennett.
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