View from ESE showing forge buildings

Description View from ESE showing forge buildings

Date 1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 768674

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Parkhead Forge, Old Shettleston Road, Glasgow This shows part of the forge looking west along Old Shettleston Road. The corrugated iron-clad blocks in the centre are the heavy forge, and were built in the 1930s. On the right are the main offices, and on the left part of the gun treatment plant. The site is now occupied by the forge shopping centre, with the forge indoor market to the left, above the brick arches. 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 H35/70/53/24

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