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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 737773

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/737773

NS56NE 88.00 centred 56790 65430

Location also cited as NS 5633 6557 to NS 5727 6536.

NS56NE 88.01 NS 56360 65575 Hydraulic Swing Bridge (at dock entrance)

NS56NE 88.02 NS 56355 65618 Hydraulic Power Station (at dock entrance)

NS56NE 88.03 NS 57100 65400 North Basin

NS56NE 88.04 NS 57050 65340 Centre Pier

NS56NE 88.05 NS 56880 65340 South Basin

NS56NE 88.06 NS c. 566 653 Lascars' Lavatory Block (Stobcross Quay)

For flint arrowhead found during dock construction, see NS56NE 15.

For (associated and adjacent) Stobcross Quay (NS 5674 6532) and Finnieston Cantilever Crane (NS 57103 65151), see NS56NE 123.00 and NS56NE 123.01 respectively.

For subsequent use of the site (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre), see NS56NE 144.00.

Queen's Dock [NAT] (at NS 5668 6555)

OS 1:1250 map, 1969.

Queen's Dock, originally known as Stobcross Dock, planned in 1846; construction was re-authorised in 1870, and started in 1872. The dock was opened in August 1877 when the Anchor liner, Victoria, entered the tidal basin, though the last copestone was not laid until 20 March 1880. The dock has two basins, an area of 33.5 acres [13.6ha], and has single-storey brick warehouses lining the quays.

At the entrance, there was, until the 1950's, a hydraulic swing bridge (NS56NE 88.01) by Sir William Arrol, and a hydraulic pumping station (NS56NE 88.02) for both bridge and cranes.

The dock closed on 31 December 1969.

J R Hume 1974.

(Illustrations include plans of dock as proposed and as completed. photographs illustrating work in progress and construction of quay walls, and aerial view in 1931).

J Riddell 2000.

This tidal (unlocked) dock formerly occupied a projection from the N bank of the River Clyde, within the area of the Lower Harbour. The dock has been infilled and its area redeveloped.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 February 2006.

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