Our featured building this time is one that has now gone. We were
recently presented with copies of a couple of the working drawings
for this fine
building, which was designed by Graeme Watt & Tulloch and
opened in 1898, replacing the much smaller station in Chapel Lane
that had hitherto served the city. According to the Irish Builder
of October 1898, the principal façade
was built of red brick and Giffnock stone
"in the style of the English Renaissance", and the building
used no less than 1190 piles. It was extended in 1905 to supply
the new electric tram service.
This
exuberant building was sadly demolished c.1980, and the site is
now occupied by offices and a particularly garish fast food premises.
While we do not formally keep an archive, we are always interested
to see photographs or drawings connected with historic buildings
in the province. 
We
generally recommend that such documents are sent to the Public
Record Office or the Monuments Record in Hill Street, where they
can be looked after properly. (In this case PRONI has working
drawings). 
If
you are planning to dispose of anything of this kind, or know
someone who is likely to, please make sure that they are offered
to an archive first. Often something which appears to be of little
interest contains information that a researcher can make very
good use of.
See CIT p.40; IB 1898 p.153; McCutcheon pl.137.3; NMC p.117;
PRONI D1898/1/25.
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