STRATHCLYDE Passenger Transport executive decided to sell these offices at the corner of Bath Street and Renfield Street, Glasgow in 1981.
For decades the home to the staff responsible for organising the city’s tram, bus and Subway services, it was time to get on the move themselves to a new site in George Square.
The Municipal Transport Offices were being sold ahead of the relocation to Consort House at the corner of Dundas Street and West George Street, next to Queen Street Station.
It wasn’t the first time the sale of the offices had been mooted.
As far back as 1964, the transport sub-committee discussed the possibility, with the sum of £250,000
mentioned as a likely price, with the cost of building somewhere new thought to be around £200,000.
Councillor A Garrow at a meeting of the transport committee, proposed a site out of the city centre, near Cowcaddens Underground Station for a replacement building, with companies interested in the Bath Street site offering to build an office to let back to the transport department and other firms.
The sums involved don’t sound much for such a building project now – but £50,000 still sounds a worthwhile profit.
1968: Paisley’s shop in Glasgow’s Jamaica Street was still going strong after 100 years in 1968. It was sold in 1981 when chairman William Paisley said he didn’t want to continue “in these modern business times”
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