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View from ESE showing part of South Street frontage
SC 772548
Description View from ESE showing part of South Street frontage
Date 4/1/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 772548
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Scotstoun Shipbuilding Yard, No 903 South Street, Glasgow This shows the western part of the South Street frontage of the yard, all of which was very functional. The large sheds in the distance are the platers' sheds. The berths are at an angle, behind these non-committal buildings. When Upper Clyde Shipbuilders failed in 1971 the Scotstoun yard was, like what was left of the Linthouse yard, a sacrificial victim. The Scotstoun yard was officially mothballed, but once the heat was out of the situation it was quietly dismantled. The best of the cranes went to the Fairfield (Govan) yard. This yard was founded in 1861 by Charles Connell. It was very successful in building sailing ships, and then steamships of moderate size. It became part of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders in 1968, and was the most efficient merchant shipbuilding yard in that combine. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/1/39
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