A William Anderson Ltd, Plumber, access cover in the Govan Old Parish churchyard in Glasgow. The son of the slater John Anderson and starting in the 1870s, William Anderson built up a large plumbing business with branches across the city.
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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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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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