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Publication Account
Date 2009
Event ID 1019769
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019769
The Linthouse Engine Works and Shipyard also has surviving historic elements, though these are scattered. Alexander and Sons formed the yard from the Linthouse estate from 1869 and the yard eventually closed in 1968. The in situ surviving element of the complex is a reinforced concrete and brick office block of 1914 on Holmfauld Road (fig 5.13). The iron- and timber-framed engine works (1872) was removed in 1986–90 to the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine (fig 5.14), the largest historic building to have been relocated in Scotland (Hay and Stell 1986, 121–4). Parts of the site have seen recent redevelopment by Barr and Stroud/Thalys. A notable related survival is part of the Linthouse Buildings tenement block, which housed workers from the yard.
Information from ‘The Scottish Burgh Survey, Historic Govan: Archaeology and Development’ (2009).
