‘Greek’ Thomson and the Watson Street Warehouses
20 November 2025, 7.30pm | Dominic d’Angelo looks at the Watson Street warehouses designed by ‘Greek Thomson for Gavin & William Millar.
Thu, 20 Nov 2025 | 7:30 – 9:30pm |St Andrews West Church & Renfield Centre, 260 Bath Street Glasgow G2 4JP
Two years before he died, Alexander’ Greek’ Thomson designed a pair of warehouses in Watson Street for shopkeeping brothers Gavin and William Millar, as part of their planned expansion to become ‘the Largest Furniture Department in Scotland’. Dominic d’Angelo, Chair of The Alexander Thomson Society, looks at how both buildings ended up as lodging houses, and, on their 120th anniversary, the fire that would claim 40 lives.
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