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Clydebridge Steel Works and Clyde Iron Works (For More information and pics, visit Colin Findlay's excellent site at https://cfindlay17.wixsite.com/clydebridge
Clydebridge Steel Works	Gas Ovens	Plate Mill Skids	Mangle	Side Cutters	Castors
Lid Lifter	Some of the following were donated by Colin Findlay - Sep 2002. He says, "Here are a few photos of Clydebridge Steelworks - photos of the 1916, 1921-1960 and 1961-1981 Plate Mills and one of the cooling floor in June 1981. I was a mechanical engineer in Clydebridge, finally Plate Mill engineer in 1980. I have a lot of information and photos and have been slowly writing a history of the place. I would be interested in any extra information anyone else has."cfindlay @ worldonline.co.uk
Plate Mill June 1973	1922 Donated by Brian Maclure whose gradfather was A Woods Nov 02	Courtesy of Evening Times June 2005	Courtesy of Evening Times Jun 2005	This works was founded in 1788, but was thereafter rebuilt several times. It took its latterly existing form from the late 1930s, when the first large mechanically-charged blast-furnace was constructed. Rebuilding was completed in the 1950s. This view shows the blast-furnace plant from Clydebridge Steel Works, Number one furnace is on the right, with two and three to the left. The silver towers are hot-blast stoves. The cooling tower served the works power station. The works closed in 1978, as Clydebridge Steel Works, the main customer for its pig iron, was closed as part of the British Steel Corporation's programme of phasing out open-hearth steelmaking. It has since been demolished.	Clyde Iron Works with Hoover building in foreground 1975
	Cogging Mill and Upper Shears 1916	Plate Mill 1981	Plate cooling and marking floor 1981 (where I worked 1961/62..Ed)	Plate Mill Aug 1939	Clydebridge 1973