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' Cold Storage Depot, No 39 Melbourne Street, Glasgow This shows the Melbourne Street frontage of the store. It is brick-built. Note the use of pilasters and a dentillated cornice to break up the apparent bulk of this otherwise daunting block. The Armour Street frontage, to the left, is similar, but longer. This was one of a number of cold stores built, or adapted from other premises, in Glasgow in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when refrigerated ships began bringing in frozen beef from the Argentine, and later chilled lamb from New Zealand. Locally slaughtered meat could also be chilled for storage. This store was built in 1913-14 for the Union Cold Storage Co to designs by J W & J Laird, architects. It was a massive windowless building, with four floors above ground, and two below. It was built mainly for the storage of meat, both imported and slaughtered in the nearby city slaughterhouse. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN. '