Glasgow, Pointhouse Shipyard View from N showing NW and NE fronts of joiners' shop with part of Pointhouse Boiler Works on left

Description Glasgow, Pointhouse Shipyard View from N showing NW and NE fronts of joiners' shop with part of Pointhouse Boiler Works on left

Date 6/11/1964

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

Catalogue Number SC 634805

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Pointhouse Shipyard, Ferry Road, Glasgow This yard, at the mouth of the River Kelvin and launching into it, was founded in 1862 by A & J Inglis, marine engineers, to build hulls for the engines and boilers they were building in Anderston. They added a boiler works in 1873-8. This shows the woodworking shop of the yard, in the centre, with part of the Pointhouse Boiler Works on the left. The woodworking shop was a remarkable building, with wrought-iron girders and cast iron columns giving large unobstructed floor areas. The floors and walls were almost entirely wooden. The yard, which built and repaired many Clyde steamers, was taken over by Harland & Wolff during World War I. They closed it in 1963, and it was demolished in 1965-6. The woodworking shed was destroyed by fire in 1965. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/64/4/12

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/634805

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