Glasgow, 1048 Govan Road, Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard and Engine Works View from W showing SSW front of office block

Description Glasgow, 1048 Govan Road, Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard and Engine Works View from W showing SSW front of office block

Date 1967

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

Catalogue Number SC 602428

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard and Engine Works, No 1048 Govan Road, Glasgow This complex was founded as a shipbuilding yard in 1863 by Randolph, Elder & Co to build hulls for the engines constructed in their Tradeston engine works. They added an engine works here in about 1874. The yard has since been modernised on many occasions. The engine works closed in 1965. This shows the offices of the works from the south-west. These were built in 1899, to designs by J Keppie of Honeyman & Keppie, architects. They contained ship and engine drawing offices on the first floor, with administrative offices on the ground floor. The yard has been through a succession of owners since 1965, but is still building ships, in the ownership of BAe Systems Ltd. It is now the only large shipbuilding yard in Scotland. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H67/355/2C

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/602428

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