2013

NS3174 : Belhaven Street

taken 11 years ago, near to Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, Scotland

This is 1 of 24 images, with title Belhaven Street in this square
Belhaven Street
Belhaven Street
Once the A8 main thoroughfare from Port Glasgow to Greenock, it was displaced by a new dual carriageway in 1974, which has since been replaced by another new dual carriageway. The Glen Shipyard site is behind the wall on the left. Note the old "clocking-in" gate on the right.
Site of Scott Lithgow's Glen and Kingston shipyards

Scott Lithgow's Glen and Kingston yards stood between Anderson Street and the Greenock boundary.

The east end of the vast site is occupied by a Tesco superstore. The west end (west of the realigned A8 dual carriageway) is now a housing estate which is still being developed at the time of writing in September 2013.

The central part of the site, east and west of the Glen Burn, has been in a brownfield state for many years, but is now being developed, with a B & Q store and a drive-through Costa Coffee currently under construction. This construction work required temporary realignment of the Glen Burn.

At the time of writing, one of the main Glen Yard gateways and a section of the perimeter wall still stand at Belhaven Street (which is now an overgrown cul-de-sac), although the gate is a wire mesh construction and not the original bright red solid design that I recall from the 70s and 80s. A few bricked-up "clocking-in" gates also survive. A fading hand-written sign showing the way to "Scotts" can also be seen.


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NS3174, 865 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Thomas Nugent   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 7 July, 2013   (more nearby)
Submitted
Friday, 27 September, 2013
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 3152 7470 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:56.1447N 4:41.9273W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 3159 7466
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West-northwest (about 292 degrees)
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