Gourock Rope Works [2nd]
Location type
WorksNames and dates
Richardson's Sugar Refinery (1797-1860)Gourock Rope Works [2nd] (1860-1970)
Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.
Served by the Industry (without sidings).Description
This rope works was located in Port Glasgow rather than Gourock having relocated 1797. The works manufactured cloth for marine use; rope, canvas and sailcloth.
It was located on either side of the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway and close to, just west of, Port Glasgow Goods. A long low ropework building (with its own internal ropeworks railway track) ran parallel to, and on the south side of, the railway.
A building (formerly Richardson's Sugar Refinery) survives to the north of the railway, now in use as flats and 'A' listed. South of the line the site is a supermarket.
The works was owned by Sir Archibald Birkmyre of Dalmunzie Lodge.
Sources for closure dates give dates varying between 1970, 1974 and 1976. Canmore suggests 1974.
Tags
Sugar Refinery Rope worksAliases
Gourock Rope Works Gourock RopeworksExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
02/05/2022
Facilities
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