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The Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society’s housing estate and factories in Glasgow. The estate itself was named after the original mansion built sometime around 1720 by the maltman Thomas Hamilton. The estate passed through numerous hands until the late 1880s, when it was acquired by the Scottish Wholesale Co-operative Society. The SCWS demolished the mansion and laid out a large industrial estate of factories and warehouses there. The area was a model of enlightened industry, in which its workers were given a fair wage and benefits. Most of the Co-op buildings were demolished in the 1970s to make way for the Shieldhall Industrial Estate. This street, like others on the Bostall Estate, is named after key figures and achievements of the Co-operative movement. The Bostall Estate was laid out from 1900 by the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society Ltd.
