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Re: Scotway House, Castlebank Street.

PostPosted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:55 pm
by robertpool
you will find a number of photos of Scotway house (front and rear) on my flickr account

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertpool/

go to Sets, Glasgow Harbour Jan 2004 - Aug 2007

Re: Scotway House, Castlebank Street.

PostPosted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 3:15 pm
by BenCooper
A wee update on this place - it's still got some lovely features inside, but it's in a bit of a mess:

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The attic still has some reminders of shipbuilding:

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And even some plans and paperwork:

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Re: Scotway House, Castlebank Street.

PostPosted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:16 pm
by HollowHorn
Very nice, you lucky boy.

Re: Scotway House, Castlebank Street.

PostPosted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:56 pm
by rabmania
Good stuff Ben. Thanks.

Re: Scotway House, Castlebank Street.

PostPosted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 1:43 pm
by bankie73
Yeah man this is amazing. Must have been tricky to get in

Re: Scotway House, Castlebank Street.

PostPosted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 5:05 pm
by hazy
Ben do you know what will be happening to this building. ?

Re: Scotway House, Castlebank Street.

PostPosted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 5:34 pm
by BenCooper
Nope, I don't have the foggiest idea :D

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 5:07 pm
by Sunflower
Ronnie wrote:This looks like the office block of Meadowside Shipbuilding Yard, 165 Castlebank Street, built in 1885 to the designs of Bruce and Hay, architects.

Pgcc93 wrote:I think it was the main drawing offices of DW Henderson shipbuilders.

Tenuously related titbits for coincidence connoisseurs:

D&W Henderson were the brothers David and William Henderson who bought the Tod & Macgregor shipyard in 1872. Before that they were 'ship and commission agents' with an office in St Enoch Square. They were pioneering first residents in the newly built Walmer Crescent, living in main door flats at opposite ends from 1859 with young families and three servants each. David stayed till about 1859, then moved to Newton Terrace (Sauchiehall St / Mitchell area) and William had moved to Victoria Crescent, Dowanhill by 1867 (all this courtesy of PO Directories and 1861 census). Wonder if it was clear even by then that the west end was the place to be and Walmer Crescent - er - wasn't?

There were two other Henderson brothers, John and Thomas, who owned the Anchor Line shipping company.

Anyway, moving on a decade or so, the architect Edward Hay, of Bruce and Hay, lived in one of the upstairs flats at Walmer Crescent from 1882 till 1904. According to the Scottish architects website, Mr Hay was married in 1882 (so Walmer Crescent was a nice home for the newlyweds) by the minister of the Montrose St Evangelical Church - who was one Fergus Ferguson, who also moved into the newly built Walmer Crescent in 1858 and stayed till 1874.

Hmmm, grounds for a Walmer Crescent Connection investigation, or just like that thing about how many (or few) people you need in a room before there's an even chance two of them have the same birthday?

Re: Scotway House, Castlebank Street.

PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:01 pm
by Mori
Item 1

Entering into initial
discussions over a possible Glasgow ‘Rock and Roll’ Museum with interested
private sector funders


Discussions to take place December 2009 relating to the establishment of a
Rock and Roll museum at Scotway House.


Scotway House @ Yorkhill is being studied for possible use as a Rock and Roll museum by GCC. :)

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Re: Scotway House, Castlebank Street.

PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:40 pm
by yoker brian
hazy wrote:Ben do you know what will be happening to this building. ?

Wetherspoons?

Re: Scotway House, Castlebank Street.

PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 10:52 pm
by Mori

Re: Scotway House, Castlebank Street.

PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 11:43 pm
by banjo
in glesga,hard luck cafe mairlike.

Re: Scotway House, Castlebank Street.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 4:59 pm
by skin
Interesting little place and I hope it gets saved in one form or another. Nice to see the documents archived too.

Re: Scotway House, Castlebank Street.

PostPosted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:23 pm
by BenCooper
They haven't been, annoyingly - I thought they had, but they haven't.

Re: Scotway House, Castlebank Street.

PostPosted: Fri May 20, 2016 9:30 pm
by Sharon