Kilmacolm+Property+Company+Limited

=Kilmacolm Property Company Limited=

Company Number: SC001226 Date of Incorporation: 2 April 1883 Contact Details: 3 Altlantic Quay, York Street, Glasgow G2 8JH Operating Details: Dissolved 3 February 1995 Other names (if known): Kilmacolm Hydropathic Company Limited Function of Company*: Letting of own property (7020) Headquarters/Base of Operations Location: Kilmacolm Area of Operation: Kilmacolm


 * Taken from Standard Industrial Classification 2003, as used by Companies House in 2010

Records
No business records of these company appear to still exist. Related records: This company does have a BT2 file in the National Archives of Scotland, despite records still being held in Companies House (BT2/1226)

Company History
This company began life as the Kilmacolm Hudropathic Company, responsible for the management of the Kilmalcolm Hydropathic Hotel. The hotel had opened in 1880 in Kilmacolm, near Glasgow, as part of the hydrotherapy craze that swept Scotland during the 1870s, but had run into financial difficulties. In 1882 the hotel was ‘all but purchased’ by a philanthropist to be converted into a convalescent home, however it retained its original purpose under new management 9which probably coincided with the formation of this company). Going into the 1900s the hotel thrived as a health spa and resort.

However the hotel suffered following the referendum under the Temperance Act, which massively restricted drinks licensing. The hotel was requisitioned as a Royal Navy hospital during the Second World War, and was bought up by Stakis in 1963 (during which time it added a casino to its attractions). The hotel eventually closed in 1968, and was razed to make way for luxury flats in 1975.

This company appears to have played some part in the management of these flats, but it may be that on sale of the last it dissolved. There is currently a Kilmacolm Property Services Group, which may be a successor organisation. []

And see Bradley, Dupree and Durie ‘Taking the Water Cure: The Hydropathic Movement in Scotland 1840-1940’in Business and Economic History Vol. 26 No.2 1997 for further details of the Scottish hydropathic Movement