Glasgow, Duke Street, Parkhead Forge View of Duke Street frontage
SC 601666
Description Glasgow, Duke Street, Parkhead Forge View of Duke Street frontage
Date 6/1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 601666
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Parkhead Forge, Duke Street and Shettleston Road, Glasgow This works was founded in about 1837 by Reoch Brothers & Co for the manufacture of scrap-iron forged work. Under the management of the Beardmore family it became the centre of what was probably Scotland's greatest industrial empire. This shows the buildings in the angle between Duke Street (right) and Shettleston Road. The tall corrugated-iron-clad shed was the heavy forge built just before World War II. The slatted sides provided ventilation within the building. The Parkhead Works was one of the first in Scotland to make mild steel, and became the largest heavy forge in the country. From the 1890s it specialised in making heavy guns and armour plate. Latterly it made steel rolls but has since been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/276/2D
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