Glasgow, Duke Street, Parkhead Forge View from SSE showing SW front and part of SE front of main office block

Description Glasgow, Duke Street, Parkhead Forge View from SSE showing SW front and part of SE front of main office block

Date c. 1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 612961

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Parkhead Forge, Old Shettleston Road, Glasgow This very large works was established in about 1837 by Reoch Brothers to make scrap-iron forged work for engineers and shipbuilders. It subsequently became, under Rigby & Beardmore and W Beardmore & Co Ltd, one of the largest industrial complexes in Britain. This shows the frontage of the offices built for W Beardmore & Co in 1902, to designs by R A Bryden, architect, when the firm had become a major producer of armaments, as well as making a wide range of steel products. The building is in Old Shettleston Road, just off Duke Street, Glasgow. The building to the extreme left is Beardsmore's Metal Testing Lab. The firm played a major role in both World Wars, especially World War I, when it employed over 100,000 in munitions work. After World War II, the company diversified, but eventually retreated into making rolls for steel mills. The works closed in the 1980s and has since been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H69/504/1B

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