Such weigh stations were once an important part of commerce across Glasgow and allowed good to be measured without having to first be unload. As far as I know, only three remain. The others are at the former Fairfield Shipyard and near the Finnieston Crane.
This one was made by A. and W. Smith, which was founded in Paisley on 1836, and later operated out of the Eglinton Engine Works in Tradeston, meaning it may well have been made relatively locally.
I love the fact this weigh station has been left in place in the new park at the Govan Graving Docks in Glasgow. Installed in 1889, it was originally at the entrance to the Harbour Workshop. It even still has the stone tramways on either side of it to make it easier for horse-drawn vehicles to travel over the surrounding setts.
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The original pumphouse and sluice houses for Number 1 Dock of the former Govan Graving Docks on the Clyde in Glasgow. This would originally have contained the boiler, accumulator and pump used to pump water out of what was the largest and deepest dry dock in the UK at the time it was constructed in the early 1870s. It's recently been cleaned up and is part of the new park created on the site, allowing visitors to explore it.
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Love the new public space which has been created at the historic Govan Graving Docks in Glasgow. For me, it has just the right mix of old and new to maintain its links with the past while still giving it a modern feel.
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One of the sandstone villas on Merryland Street in the Govan area of Glasgow which became part of the Montrose Maternity Hospital in the 1930s. It's a very stylish building, but I've been able to find out relatively little about it's history prior to it being converted into a hospital.
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Part of the Summertown Road facade of the former Govan Town Hall in Glasgow. Designed by Thomson and Sandilands in a Beaux Arts style, it was built in 1897.
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The former Montrose Maternity Hospital on Merryland Street in the Govan area of Glasgow. Created by linking together a series of neighbouring villas, it was established in the early 1930s as a private maternity hospital. It closed in 1946, and re-opened in 1949 as the St Francis Maternity Home, run by the Franciscan Sisters Minoress who were founded London in the 1880s and who had established a convent on Merryland Street in 1946.
Sculptures on the front of the former Govan Press building on Govan Road in Glasgow. These are: Johannes Gutenberg, who introduced movable type printing to Europe; Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet; Mr and Mrs Cossar, who ran the Govan Press; Walter Scott, one of Scotland's first novelists; William Caxton, who introduced the printing press to Britain.
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The former Govan Town Hall rising above part of the former Prince's Dock on the southern side of the Clyde in Glasgow. The dock was closed in the 1970s, but it was then re-used as part of the Glasgow Garden Festival site in 1988, which stimulated the regeneration of much of it. However, this section remains unutilised.
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Love this painted bollard on Shaw Street in the Govan area of Glasgow. It's just a quirky bit of fun and it adds a splash of colour to the street.
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