View from SSE showing SSW front and part of ESE front of offices with N lift building in background

Description View from SSE showing SSW front and part of ESE front of offices with N lift building in background

Date 8/1968

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 686225

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Offices, Engine Works, No 4 Finnieston Quay, Glasgow The first shipbuilding yard on the upper Clyde was founded in 1818 by John Barclay at Stobcross. In 1845 Robert Curle became a partner in the firm, which was known as Barclay, Curle & Co from 1863. This engineering works was built next to the yard, for Robert Curle, in that year. This shows the office block on the front of the works, from the south-east. The works extended behind this frontage for 15 bays. It was abandoned by Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd in the 1890s, and the workshops later demolished. Scruttons were stevedores and master porters. Barclay, Curle & Co bought the Clydeholm Yard in Whiteinch in 1855, and when the Stobcross yard was needed for harbour improvement in 1874 they concentrated shipbuilding there. In the 1890s they bought the engine works of J & G Thomson in Finnieston Street, and closed the Finnieston Quay works. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/68/24/24

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/686225

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