Glasgow, Duke Street, Parkhead Forge View of East Wellington Street frontage
SC 603395
Description Glasgow, Duke Street, Parkhead Forge View of East Wellington Street frontage
Date 9/7/1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 603395
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 'G' shop, one of three parallel bays 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. 'G', 'H', and 'I' shops were probably the largest range of machine shops in Britain, containing heavy lathes and other large machine tools, including trepanning machines for rifling the barrels of naval guns. These shops have since been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/294/2D
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