It’s been, ooh, 15 minutes since I last did a report on this place 🙂 Sadly, it now looks as if this place doesn’t have much longer…
Firstly the WWII-era Cordite press houses – this part is very torn up, looks like for buried electrical cable and scrap, very smashed up but still some lovely details left, like this Tangye press:
John Brown’s Giant Cantilever crane is one of four on the Clyde – the others are Finnieston, Barclay Curle, and the King George V in Greenock. Built by Sir William Arrol, this is the only one that’s being properly preserved – a good thing, even though that means fitting a lift for visitors and lots of multi-coloured lights… Continue reading
Nobody seems to bother with the oil terminal at Inverkip Power Station – so here it is 😉
It’s hard to know what to call this site, as it’s had so many names. The company of James Kilpatrick & Son was formed by master plumber James Stevenson Kilpatrick of Paisley, and it was when his son John got involved that the company became involved with electrical installation. They started off with installations in private houses (only the poshest houses had electric power at the time), and moved into armature winding and other heavier electrical work. Continue reading
This downlink station with it’s distinctive golfball satellite dish enclosure is a local landmark – it is now (probably) up for sale, and has been completely stripped out.
