GREENOCK’S new Aldi store was built where the Glebe sugar refinery once stood.
The sole reminder of the Glebe’s existence is the tall brick building at the corner of Crawfurd Street and Ker Street.
My main picture today shows the refinery in the 1800s.
Horse-drawn carts are seen transporting raw sugar up from the former Albert Harbour.
The second photograph was taken at a later date.
This can be confirmed by the overhead walkway (absent in the other picture) connecting the main building and the property which still stands.
The photograph cannot have been taken earlier than 1910 because that was when the adjacent King’s Theatre opened.
It later became the Odeon cinema and the building was brought down in the early 1970s.
Prior to the construction of the new Aldi store, the site was occupied by several garage businesses in purpose-built showroom and workshop premises.
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