View from SSE showing ESE front of engine works with engineering works in background

Description View from SSE showing ESE front of engine works with engineering works in background

Date 13/5/1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 646125

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Hydepark Foundry (Windlass Engine Works), No 130 Hydepark Street, Glasgow This much altered works was founded in about 1836 by Mitchell & Neilson as the Hydepark Foundry, a general engineering works. It came to specialise in building locomotives. The business moved to Springburn in 1862, and this works was then taken over by Neilson Bros as the Windlass Engine Works. This shows the frontage of the works to Hydepark Street. The arcaded frontage appears to have been part of the Hydepark Foundry, but it has been re-roofed, and the other buildings are later. Neilson Bros specialised, as the name of their works suggests, in auxiliary machinery for ships. In 1965 the buildings had recently been used by Harland & Wolff Ltd as part of their diesel engine works in Lancefield Street. They were demolished later in the 1960s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/12/32

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/646125

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