Tennant’s Stalk

From Rand, McNally & Co.’s Universal Atlas of The World. Edition 1896

Number7. “Chimney at Glasgow, Scotland” was Tennants Stalk, or Tennants Lum, St. Rollox Chemical Works. 435 feet tall, designed by Professor Rankine of Glasgow University, it was once the 4th highest construction in the world.

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A cartoon entitled “The Giants of Rollox”. These were the huge chimneys of the St. Rollox Chemical Works in Glasgow. It was included in a book called The Chronicles of Gotham in 1856.

1864 view of Glasgow

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St.Rollox Chemical Works at the opening of the Garnkirk and Glasgow railway in 1831. A painting by D. O.Hill.

Charles Tennant

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