View from E showing main works blocks NNE and part of ESE fronts

Description View from E showing main works blocks NNE and part of ESE fronts

Date 30/12/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 772361

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Linthouse Engine Works & Shipyard, Govan Road, Glasgow This shows the site of the building berths on the river frontage of the yard. The sheds in the background were the platers' shops, which had served these berths, and which were in 1970 supplying prefabricated sections of hulls to the Fairfield yard, next door to the east. The shipbuilding part of Alexander Stephen & Sons became part of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders in 1968, and the yard then became an annexe to the adjacent Fairfield yard. The engine works was retained by the Stephens for a time. The site has now been cleared and partly redeveloped. This yard was laid out in 1869 in the grounds of Linthouse, a small mansion, by Alexander Stephen & Sons, who had been building ships at Kelvinhaugh for a number of years. The new yard was subsequently extended and rebuilt on a number of occasions. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/71/33

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap