View from N showing NW and part of NE fronts of W. Beardmore & Co.
SC 768587
Description View from N showing NW and part of NE fronts of W. Beardmore & Co.
Date 1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 768587
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Parkhead Forge, Duke Street, Glasgow This shows part of the forge to the south-west of Duke Street, roughly on the site of the original works. This section of steel-framed, corrugated iron-clad sheds housed the steel-making plant. The omission of alternate strips of corrugated iron was to provide ventilation. Beardmores became the largest munitions works in Scotland during both World Wars, making armour-plate, guns and gun-barrels and shells. After World War II the firm made forged boiler-drums, and latterly made work rolls for steel strip mills. The works closed in the 1980s, and this site is now a shopping mall. This very large complex had its origins in a forge established in about 1837 by Reoch Brothers & Co to make forgings from scrap malleable iron. It was subsequently enormously enlarged by a series of partnerships, and under Sir William Beardmore became a major munitions works from the 1890s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/53/18
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