2018

NS2776 : Hector McNeil House, Clyde Square

taken 6 years ago, near to Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland

Hector McNeil House, Clyde Square
Hector McNeil House, Clyde Square
The former main entrance to the building, with Charles Anderson's mural above.
Hector McNeil House

The former Greenock Central Library, which was converted to office space for Inverclyde Council in 2014/15, is now known as Hector McNeil House.

Hector McNeil was elected MP for Greenock during WWII and retained the seat after the war LinkExternal link .

He was also Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and was promoted to Minister of State at the Foreign Office in October 1946, de facto deputy to the Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, and appointed a member of the Privy Council. Due to his position at the Foreign Office, he became vice-president of the United Nations General Assembly in 1947.

He is probably most noted in Greenock for bringing IBM to the town in the early 1950s. The IBM factories at Battery Park and Spango valley (and elsewhere around the district) employed close to 6000 workers at their peak in the 1990s, but are now all closed and mostly demolished.

The artwork above the main door is original, dating from 1970 when the library was opened. It is by renowned Scottish sculptor Charles Anderson LinkExternal link .


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NS2776, 1013 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Thomas Nugent   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Wednesday, 3 January, 2018   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 8 January, 2018
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 2793 7611 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:56.8276N 4:45.4251W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 2796 7612
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West-southwest (about 247 degrees)
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