File:Glebe sugar refinery 200506 from Ker St.jpg

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Glebe sugar refinery, Ker Street, Greenock, where Abram Lyle took up the business.

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English: The Glebe sugar refinery, Greenock, Boyd Street elevation seen from Ker Street, with rounded corner to Crawfurd Street on the left. This was a late 19th century extension to the original Glebe sugarhouse on the other side of Ker Street:

Side by side georeferenced maps viewer - OS Large Scale Town Plan surveyed 1857, OS 25" map revised 1938. National Library of Scotland. Retrieved on 30 August 2022.

The sugarhouse originated in 1831, it changed hands a few times and became the Greenock Sugar Refining Company, In 1865 it was bought by a syndicate titled the Glebe Sugar Refinery Company, which included Abram Lyle who was managing partner until 1873. The Lyle family moved its interests in sugar refining to Plaistow, London, in 1882, and the Glebe refinery was continued by others. ref. R.M. Smith, 1921.

It is now a B listed building, at risk.

https://www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk/details/894652
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Camera location55° 57′ 12.33″ N, 4° 45′ 45.97″ W  Heading=3.1955275590551° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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