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Bloomvale Carpet Works, No 10 Fordneuk Street, Glasgow This factory was founded in 1868 by J & W Lyle, carpet manufacturers. The original works was in Crownpoint Road, and large additions were made in 1872, 1899 and later. By the 1960s the company had also taken over second-hand buildings in adjacent streets. This shows the Fordneuk Street frontage of the main complex. Part of the original building of 1868 is on the right, and at the far end of the frontage an addition of 1872. The linking block was constructed in 1899 to designs by Andrew Myles, architect. Lyles and Templetons were both large-scale carpet manufacturers in the east end of Glasgow until the 1970s, when decline in the demand for traditional woven carpets, and foreign competition, extinguished both. The buildings seen here were demolished in the 1980s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN. '