Glasgow, 1048 Govan Road, Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard and Engine Works View from SSW showing main office entrance on SSW front

Description Glasgow, 1048 Govan Road, Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard and Engine Works View from SSW showing main office entrance on SSW front

Date 1967

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

Catalogue Number SC 602429

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 entrance to the offices of the works from the south. These were built in 1899, to designs by J Keppie of Honeyman & Keppie, architects. The doorway is flanked by a shipwright on the left and an engineer on the right. 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 H67/355/1D

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/602429

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