Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 565838
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/565838
Govan Graving Docks, Stag Street, 1869, 1883, 1894, James Deas
Outstanding complex, unique in Scotland, comprising three dry docks and associated quays. The longest dock (1894) - 268m (880ft) long, 25m (83ft) wide and 8m (26.5ft) deep - held the largest vessels afloat or could be divided to take two smaller vessels. Dock bases and ground surfaced with heavy-duty whinstone setts. Dock walls, stepped sides and quay edges built to last in grey granite. Retaining walls and ramp sides in white sandstone. Workshops in ashlar or polychrome brick. Dock equipment of steel caisson gates, two with folding bridges, hydraulic capstans at dock entrances, bollards, hydraulic pump and sluice houses. Scotch derrick crane, A & W Smith. An 1889 weighbridge. Closed, minor buildings deteriorating, awaiting new use.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
