Gourock Ropeworks View of bobbin creel
SC 491738
Description Gourock Ropeworks View of bobbin creel
Date 1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 491738
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Gourock Ropeworks, Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire (Inverclyde council area) This complex was in the ownership of the Gourock Ropework Co from 1797, though there appears to have been an earlier open-air ropewalk on part of the site. The company became the largest of its kind in the world. This view shows the 'creel', a stand on which were mounted bobbins of the spun fibre which formed the rope. Note the curved layout to give each strand of yarn a clear run to the traveller. This was the longest ropewalk in Scotland. It had recently closed in 1974. The demand for ropes declined as the number of ships in commission declined, and natural-fibre ropes were supplanted by synthetic-fibre ones, much longer-lasting. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/98/11
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