View from NNW showing works at junction of Duke Street and Shettleston Road

Description View from NNW showing works at junction of Duke Street and Shettleston Road

Date 1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 768649

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Parkhead Forge, Duke Street, Glasgow This shows part of the forge looking east along Duke Street, which curves to the right. The tall steel-framed, corrugated iron-clad sheds in the centre house the heavy forge, and were built in the 1930s. The brick buildings on the right are of late 19th-century origin. Beardmores became the largest munitions works in Scotland during both World Wars. After World War II the firm made, among other products, forged boiler-drums and work rolls for steel strip mills. The works closed in the 1980s, and most of the site is now a retail park, known as The Forge. 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 H35/70/53/22

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