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Glasgow, 85 Castlebank Street, Meadowside Shipbuilding Yard

Shipyard (19th Century)

Site Name Glasgow, 85 Castlebank Street, Meadowside Shipbuilding Yard

Classification Shipyard (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Tod & Macgregor; D & W Henderson; River Clyde

Canmore ID 179480

Site Number NS56NE 2569

NGR NS 55561 66088

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

NS56NE 2569 5568 6616.

See also for D & W Henderson office block NS56NE 2384

Meadowside Shipbuilding Yard at 85 Castlebank Street was founded c. 1845 by Tod & MacGregor. The drydock, measuring 474 foot long, 61 foot wide and 18 foot deep was the oldest surviving part, being built 1857-8 for £120,000. The drydock was demolished in 1968 and filled in.

The 14 bay red brick and sandstone office block was built in 1885 for D & W Henderson. This two storey structure is built in the French Renaisaance style being topped by a central tower.

J Hume, 1974.

Activities

Desk Based Assessment (October 2001)

Archaeological desk based study carried out on Glasgow Harbour by FIRAT Archaeological Services.

Desk Based Assessment (27 June 2016)

Nothing is now visible in an area of waste ground of the shipbuilding yard depicted here on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch Map (Lanarkshire 1865, Sheet VI). At that time it comprised a slipway running SE into the confluence of the River Clyde and the River Kelvin, with ranges of buildings to the NE, N and NW. The 2nd edition of the 25-inch map shows that the yard, at that time annotated ‘Meadowside Shipbuilding Yard’, had seen further development with the range on the N being extended to the NW and the original NW range removed. (Lanarkshire 1896, Sheet 006.09).

Information from RCAHMS (JRS) 7 January 2015.

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