View from S showing SW, S and SE fronts of terminal block with part of SW front of transit shed in background

Description View from S showing SW, S and SE fronts of terminal block with part of SW front of transit shed in background

Date 31/3/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 785411

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Transit shed, Custom House Quay (Steamboat Quay), Greenock, Inverclyde This shows a range of transit sheds and an office block, built in 1859 on the east pier of the West Harbour, with its north face serving the Steamboat Quay. The buildings have cast-iron columns, and the offices are the earliest use of red and white brick in Scotland so far identified. The West Harbour was filled in in the 1920s, and the Steamboat Quay was little used by that time. In about 1950 these buildings were converted into the Clyde Passenger Terminal, to handle passengers using the transatlantic steamers services from Greenock. This was destroyed by fire in the 1980s. The first enclosed part of the port of Greenock was the West Harbour, built in the early 18th century, largely to handle imports from, and exports of trade goods to the West Indies and the American colonies. The quay to the north and east was formed in 1788 and rebuilt as the Steamboat Quay in 1809-22. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/23/13

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap