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The first municipal building on the site was an 18th-century town house which was built on land acquired from Lord Cathcart. [2] The works were carried out by a local builder, James Wallace, for £240 and the building was completed in 1765. [3] Lord Cathcart insisted that the local masonic lodge should be allowed to hold meetings in the ...
St Andrew's Chapel is on Auchmead Road, as is Ravenscraig Stadium, Inverclyde Athletic's stadium, home to Greenock Juniors F.C. Football Club. Larkfield has its own online digital community page for residents and businesses, Greenock. Larkfield estate forms part of the Larkfield, Braeside and Branchton Community Council (LBBCC).
The Beacon Arts Centre is at Custom House Quay, just across the A8 main road from Greenock's town centre, between the area in front of the Custom House and the East India Harbour. Its Cafe & Bar and first floor Gallery Suite look out over the River Clyde and Firth of Clyde to the hills of Dunbartonshire and Argyll.
Greenock Central station is one of eight railway stations serving the town of Greenock in western Scotland, and is the nearest to the town centre.This station, which is staffed, is on the Inverclyde Line, 37 km (23 mi) west of Glasgow Central towards Gourock.
Greenock West railway station is a station in Greenock, Scotland, located on the Inverclyde Line which runs from Gourock to Glasgow Central. The route is currently operated by ScotRail under the auspices of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. Each service to and from Glasgow on the Inverclyde Line stops at this station.
Waterfront and harbours, view east from the start of Lyle Road, with the Glebe sugar refinery at far left. Greenock expanded to the west on a grid plan. [16] There was severe unemployment in the town during the Long Depression, and in late 1878 the Police Board resolved to provide work by building a road or carriage drive to the Craigs or Bingens from the west end of Finnart Street, where it ...
Keir and Cawder Ltd. and James Millar Son and Co. Ltd. reopened the mine in 1942. They formed the Muirshiel Barytes Co. in 1947, and constructed new shafts to depths between 64 metres (210 ft) and 64 metres (210 ft). This gave access to veins of baryte of a finer quality, which was taken directly to a dressing plant in Glasgow. Production was ...
Prior to that it was a scattered collection of farms with access to the river. [2] An 1800 map makes reference to Longbank. It remains on the busy A8 trunk road, a few hundred yards from the start of the M8 motorway. Langbank railway station is on the Inverclyde Line.