Gartcosh Steelworks View from SW showing WSW front
SC 549465
Description Gartcosh Steelworks View from SW showing WSW front
Date 1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 549465
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Gartcosh Works, Gartcosh, Lanarkshire Gartcosh Works was the successor to Smith and MacLean's steel sheet rolling mill, founded in the late 19th century. In the late 1950s it was rebuilt to house the cold-reduction steel strip mill built to finish strip from Ravenscraig. This view shows the works from the south west. The low-pitched workshops were typical of the 1950s. Gartcosh Works was rebuilt to retain employment in that part of Lanarkshire. The separation of strip manufacture into hot reduction at Ravenscraig and cold reduction at Gartcosh did not make economic sense, and both closed in the 1990s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/198/10
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