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Glasgow, 1465 South Street, Bae Systems, Steel Preparation Workshop

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Site Name Glasgow, 1465 South Street, Bae Systems, Steel Preparation Workshop

Classification Shipyard (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Yarrows Shipyard 1906 Boiler Shop

Canmore ID 332210

Site Number NS56NW 41.01

NGR NS 52324 67774

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/332210

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Interior. Central Yard Steel preparation workshop. View of Hugh Smith 600 Ton rolling machine and job crane (maximum plate width 9.14m, plant no. 5569) from North West.
Interior. Central Yard Steel preparation workshop. View of Hugh Smith 600 Ton rolling machine and job crane (maximum plate width 9.14m, plant no. 5569) from North West.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, West End. General view from South West of North and South BAy (originally 1906) with MG Corta CNC plasma burner right foreground and two MG 3 (CNC Plasma) burning beds to the left. Plasma burners are used to cut or weld metal using a high speed inert gas (such as compressed air). Also note the original 1906 stanchions with integral crane rail. The Crane on the right is a 7.5 Tonne Matterson Electric Overhead Traveller (or EOT, istalled 1995). The two beyond are 5 Ton Arrol EOT (Installed 1996).Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop. Stanchions dividing North and South Bays at the West end with integral EOT crane rails. These sanchions date from 1906.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, 1906 South Bay, East End and 18950s south Bay West end junction. View of Haemmerlie Guillotine machine. (maximum plate width 3.05m).Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay (1950s) East End. General view from South East.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop. General view from North East. The junction between the 1950s extension (nearest the camera) and the original 1906 boiler shop clearly shown. Note the remnants of window voussoirs middle of the image. The wall below has been remodelled.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay, West End (1950s extension). View of Hugh Smith S.F.B truedge planer machine.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay, West End (1906). View of CNC plasma burner.Central Yard, south wall, west end. General view of workshop from South East showing the remnants of the Travelling electric crane gantry and uprights (painted blue, left) from 1906 when this area was an open yard. It was later covered over and became the covered steel stockyard where the plate metal was kept out of the elements. This shed has since been demolished (in 2013), revealing the remnants of the original layout. The saw toothed roof of the original 1906 boiler shop is visible behind (latterly the Plate Preparation Shop).Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, 1950s South and North BAys. General view from South West (called the South East Pend). Extreme right is a 5 Tonne Arrol EOT crane installed in 1996. A MAtterson 7.5 Tonne EOT Pendant Crane is on the left, Installed 1995) with another Matteson 7.5 Tonne EOT crane (North Bay Centre, instaled 1982).Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay (1950s) East End. View of Hugh Smith 600 Tonne rolling machine with Paterson Hughes 3 Tonne jib crane.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay (1950s), East End. View of magnetic lift attached to a 7500Kg crane and travelling overhead crane to which it is attached. The operators cab is on the right.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End (1906). View of Panel Production Line. (installed 1995).Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay, West End (1906). View of CNC plasma burner.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End. View of annexe to North West of main shed from South West. One of the two plasma CNC burnres just visible on right. The frame with original 1906 brick infill visible top right corner.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End. View of magnetic crane attached to a 7.5 Tonne, Mattreson semi Goliath crane. This woud have moved plate steel from the Stockyard (now demolished) into the Preparation Shed and to the plasma burners for welding etc.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End. View of magnetic crane for moving sheet metal from now demolishedStockyard to the plasma burners which are out of shot to the right of the camera.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay, West End. View of MG Corta CNC plasma burner (maximum 11m by 2m cutting bed area, installed 1995).Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End. View of magnetic crane and 7.5 Tonne Matterson EOT Pendant crane (installed 1995). Also, a Hammerle Press Brake (a mchine tool designed to bend sheet metal using dies, 500 Tonnes maximum pressure).Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay. General view from North West showing Hugh Smith 600 Ton rolling machine (left) and vertical press.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay, West End (1950s extension). View of Hugh Smith S.F.B truedge planer machine.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End (1906). View of Panel Production Line. (installed 1995).General view of workshop from South West. Central Yard, south wall, west end. General view of workshop from South West showing the remnants of the Travelling electric crane gantry uprights (painted blue) from 1906 when this area was an open yard. It was later covered over and became the covered steel stockyard where the plate metal was kept out of the elements. This shed has since been demolished (in 2013), revealing the remnants of the original layout. The saw toothed roof of the original 1906 boiler shop is visible behind (latterly the Plate Preparation Shop) with the 1950s two bay extension beyond. The MAchine HAl is on the right.Interior. Central Yard. Steel preparation workshop, East end of North Bay. View of Hugh Smith 600 Tonne roller with Press to right, from North West.Interior. Central Yard. Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End. General view from South showing multiple ridged roof , north and west wall of former boiler shop of 1907. The frame and roof structure and stanchions appear to be original, although there is later cladding and remodelling of the west wall. On right, two CNC plasma burners for welding metal sheets, and in background, a 7.5Tonne EOT Crane (Via Nova, instaled 1982) and a 7.5Tonne Matterson Semi Goliath Crane background left (installed 1982) with attached magnetic lifts for moving metal sheets fro the steel stockyard to the plasma burners..Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay (1950s) East End. View of Hugh Smith vertical press machine (installed 2001).Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay, West End (1950s extension). View of Hugh Smith S.F.B truedge planer machine.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End (1906). View of CNC plasma burner.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop North Bay, West End. View of CNC plasma burners from West. Note roof change with 1950s extension in background.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop. General view from East of East end of North Bay. This is the steel preparation or plate cutting shop is about 590 feet in length. The east end of the north bay structure dates from the 1950s at its East end and the West end (saw-tooth roofed building, formerly the boiler shop with its south west/east oriented single pitch roofed range) dates from 1907.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, West End. General view from North West of North and South BAy (originally 1906) with two MG 3 Corta CNC plasma burners left foreground and one MGCorta (CNC Plasma) burning bed to the right. Plasma burners are used to cut or weld metal using a high speed inert gas (such as compressed air). Also note the original 1906 stanchions with integral crane rail. On the extreme right is a magnetic lift (installed 2000).Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay, East End, south wall (1950s extension).Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, West End, South Bay. Also note the original 1906 stanchions with integral crane rail. The 7.5 Tonne Matterson Electric Overhead Traveller (or EOT, istalled 1995) and two 5 Ton Arrol EOT (Installed 1996) travelled along this. To the left later addition which in parts incorporated the former open yard electric traveller crane rail. This open yard was later closed over and became the steel stockyard.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop North Bay, West End. View of CNC plasma burners from West. Note roof change with 1950s extension in background.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End. View of two, MG3 (CNC plasma) burning beds (one 11m by 8m and one 13m by 8m cutting bed area) from South South East.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay (1950s) East End. View of Hugh Smith 600 Tonne rolling machine with Paterson Hughes 3 Tonne jib crane.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay (1950s) East End. View of Hugh Smith 600 Tonne rolling machine with Paterson Hughes 3 Tonne jib crane.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay (1950s) East End. View of Hugh Smith vertical press machine (installed 2001).Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay 1(1906). View of Haemmerlie Guillotine machine (installed 1995).Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End (1906). View of CNC plasma burner.Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay (1906). View of light metal manufacture Trumpf laser (with two burning beds 13m by 3m maximum cutting bed area) workstation from North East. Note the steel frame with brick infill construction. This workstation hsa been created by slapping through the 1906 original south exterior wall of the former boiler shop.

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  • Council Glasgow, City Of
  • Parish Renfrew (City Of Glasgow)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District City Of Glasgow
  • Former County Lanarkshire

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Note (6 September 2013)

BAe systems Surface Ships, former Yarrows Yard 1906 Boiler Shop and 1950s E extension, South Street, Scotstoun, Glasgow

The former Yarrows Shipyard (now BAe systems Central Yard, NS56NW 41.01) was begun in 1906 after Yarrow and Company (founded 1865 at Folly Wall, Poplar, London) outgrew their London Yard in Cubitt Town in 1898 and moved to greenfield site at Scotstoun Glasgow. The original 1906 saw-toothed roofed, brick and steel-framed Boiler House (remodelled) and part of the adjacent open steelyard gantry survives, along with the wet dock (originally covered, now open).

The current yard has over the years subsumed Elderslie Shipyard (now BAe Dock Yard, acquired 1970s formerly owned by Barclay Curle to the west of the Yarrows Yard). Elderslie Shipyard contains three dry docks of 1904, 1933 and 1965. The 1904 dock was covered in the 1970s along with a large fabrication hall demolished in 2008. Blytheswood Shipyard (1919, now forms the east part of the Central Yard and East Yard) was acquired in 1965.

Yarrows Co. Ltd also devised the Coventry Ordnance Works venture in 1905 and built a factory in 1910 in Scotstoun to the east.

Visited by RCAHMS (MMD) 6 September 2013.

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