View from W showing SSW front of warehouse (after it became part of forge) with part of forge on right and left

Description View from W showing SSW front of warehouse (after it became part of forge) with part of forge on right and left

Date 6/1967

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

Catalogue Number SC 601667

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 frontage to East Wellington Street of one of the main ranges of heavy machine shops, built c.1900. The two rows of windows lit a single internal space. These shops were designed for making heavy guns and propeller shafts. From the 1890s to 1945 the firm specialised in armaments manufacture. In the post-war period they made forged boiler drums for power stations, and later specialised in making steel rolls for rolling steel strip. The works has since been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H67/277/1A

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/601667

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