IN Pictures — A Look Back At…Industrial Buildings Along Greenock’s A8 Corridor
Main Street with Scotts Cartsburn shipbuilding yard and offices on the left, and Kincaids Arthur Street engine works on the right, 1989.
MUCH of the land along the A8 in Greenock has changed beyond recognition with the demise of heavy industry.
| Photos by Eric Webster
The new roundabout at the then Kincaids Engine Works now occupied by McDonald’s and the Point restaurants on the left, and flats on the right, takes shape, around 1991.
Scott’s Engine Works, 1989.
Looking from St Andrew Square as the demolition of Scotts engine works gets under way 1989.
Kincaids Arthur Street engine works prior to demolition, 1990
| Previously — A look back at…
— Dalrymple Street Factories and Tesco Being Built
— View From Victoria Tower In 1951
— Greenock Waterfront in the late 1980s
— Craigmuschat Quarry In The 1950s/60s
— What Clyde Square Looked Like
— Greenock Shopping Centre Before The Roof
