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Note
Date 5 June 2017
Event ID 1022699
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1022699
The Newark Yard, which is still in business and is the last commercial shipyard on the River Clyde, may have its origins in the 1780s, when, it is known that Thomas McGill had a yard to the W of Newark CastLe (NS37SW 1). Between 1830 and 1840 the McDonald brothers ran a yard (also to the W of the castle), however no shipyard is depicted here on the 1st edition of the OS 25-inch map (Renfrew 1864, sheet II.12). In 1873 Messrs William and John Hamilton bought the Newark Yard and it continued in use until 1890 when the company transferred the work to the Glen Yard (NS37SW 230). The yard then lay disused, as recorded on the 2nd edition of the 25-inch OS map (Renfrewshire 1897, sheet II.12), until Ferguson Brothers took it over in 1903.
Information from Historic Environment Scotland (AKK) 5 May 2017.
