[1][2][3] The site was then turned into the College Goods yard by the City of Glasgow Union Railway[4][5][6] before it was closed in 1968 in the wake of the Beeching Axe.

The wall of the goods warehouse with its distinctive arched windows still faces onto this section of Duke Street, preserved as part of a new office block within the Collegelands development, which also includes a multi-storey car park, student accommodation and a hotel.

[12] Today, landmarks on Duke Street include the A-listed Ladywell Business Centre, originally designed by John Burnet in 1858 as the Alexanders Endowed School, Tennents' Wellpark Brewery, the nearby Glasgow Necropolis and the A-listed former Sydney Place United Presbyterian Church, which was damaged in a fire but was restored by the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust in 1996 as an extension to the Wellpark Enterprise Centre.

The building at 100 Duke St is a fireproof six-storeyed (plus basement) mill built in 1848 for R. F. and J. Alexander, cotton-spinners.

The rooms were split into small cubicles with half-height partitions and in total housed over 300,[15] perhaps as many as 500,[16] men in squalid conditions.

[14] During this time the roof blew off in a gale in January 2008[17] and the eastern gable plus 3 bays collapsed in March 2009.

[20] The original stained glass windows to the ground floor were reproduced, and car parking was incorporated within the basement level.