The workshops of Wallace Scott & Co Ltd Tailoring Institute (Cathcart Works), showing women operating sewing machines with signs hanging above them saying 'DO IT BETTER'

Date:
1919
Location:
Wallace Scott And Company Limited Tailoring Institute, 42 Spean Street, Cathcart, Glasgow
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Cathcart Works, 42 Spean Street, Cathcart, Glasgow
Reference:
BL24741/024
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

This clothing factory, built in 1912 and extended in 1919, was designed by architects John Burnet & Son. The photograph is one of a series taken for Wallace Scott.

Content

This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Lemere, Henry Bedford: Bedford Lemere And Company

Keywords

Early 20th Century Clothing Factory, Textile Industry, People At Work, Women's History