What is recorded here

Glasgow, 137 Old Castle Road, Cathcart Smithy is a restaurant and smithy in Scotland. The distinction between eating and making tools may have blurred inside one building, where heat served both purposes. A knife needed sharpening before a meal, or a meal sustained the man who sharpened knives. The road carries cars past the site now, but the smelly, noisy dual use remains plausible in the name.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Glasgow, 137 Old Castle Road, Cathcart Smithy as Restaurant (period Unassigned), Smithy (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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