View from SE showing part of SSW front of numbers 477-519 Shettleston Road

Description View from SE showing part of SSW front of numbers 477-519 Shettleston Road

Date 20/4/1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 685317

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Parkhead Forge, Old Shettleston Road, Glasgow This works was founded in about 1837 by Reoch Bros & Co to make forgings from scrap iron. It was subsequently greatly extended by Rigby & Beardmore and William Beardmore & Co Ltd. During both World Wars it was an important munitions works. These buildings are on Old Shettleston Rd, Glasgow. The larger brick building in the foreground is currently in use as a Domestic Storage Facility. The other buildings in the background have long been demolished. This shows a very large machine shop built in 1914-15 to make artillery for use on the Western Front during World War I. The brick cladding covered a steel frame. This block was still used as a machine shop in 1967, finishing rolling-mill rolls forged on the other side of Shettleston Road. Under William Beardmore, Parkhead Forge became the nucleus of a vast industrial empire, with a workforce of over 100,000 at its peak. By the 1960s Parkhead was all that was left, making alloy steel, heavy forgings and rolling-mill rolls. The works closed in the 1980s and has almost all been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/68/1/3

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/685317

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