Gourock Ropeworks View along length of top floor
SC 491740
Description Gourock Ropeworks View along length of top floor
Date 1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 491740
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 interior of the upper floor of the ropewalk, which housed a single rope railway. This was long disused in 1974, but its wooden rails still survived and can be seen on the right in this view. The rope to the left powered the gearing on the 'traveller' which operated the hooks. The twist in the individual strands of rope locked the strands together to form the finished rope. This was the longest ropewalk in Scotland. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/98/12
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