View from NW showing arched wall on Shettleston Road and forge building

Description View from NW showing arched wall on Shettleston Road and forge building

Date 1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 768667

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Parkhead Forge, Old Shettleston Road, Glasgow This shows part of the forge on the south side of Shettleston Road. This was part of the gun treatment shop, and was probably used for heating the barrels of large guns, which were then quenched in oil in a tall tower, which was on the right and which was demolished in the 1960s. 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. All that remains are the brick arches. On the land above the brick arches sits the Forge indoor market. 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 H35/70/53/23

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