IN Pictures — A Look Back At… Greenock Waterfront In The Late 1980s
The old piers before construction work began on new sea wall, 1987
THIRTY years ago the transformation of Greenock’s Waterfront was getting underway….
| Photos by Eric Webster
Among the buildings that disappeared, James Lamont Dry Dock Ship Repairers offices and workshops, now part of the police compound, 1987.
Also consigned to history, the Marine Bar were the Para Handy actors and film crew hung out when filming the series was filmed at East India Harbour in the early 70s
Crane at work removing old pier supports to make way for new sea wall to be built, 1989
Waterfront reconstruction with diver helping to attach steel ropes for crane to haul out old pier supports, 1989
Pilling work well under way on new sea wall just in front of where the college campus now stands, 1989
| Previously — A look back at…
— Craigmuschat Quarry In The 1950s/60s
— What Clyde Square Looked Like
— Greenock Shopping Centre Before The Roof
