Greenock 2010 Regeneration and Vintage Cars

Greenock's waterfront in 1959 compared to the regeneration currently taking place at James Watt Dock and the listed Suagar Sheds. Phoenix Car Club classic cars.Removal of the main road rail bridge to the dock.

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Entertainment

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• Harbour
• and
• riverside
• regeneration.
• Classic
• cars.
• Railway
• bridge
• removal.
• Lifting
• gear.Archive
• footage.Recycling.Listed
• buildings.Historic
• interest.

[williambraid]

Glad the film has allayed your fears of memory loss----I well know the feeling!

[SteamboatWilley]

They removed the railway bridge! Why would they do that? :(

[williambraid]

@SteamboatWilley

Hi Willey, good question but the reason given was to create a better entrance to the dock area which is going to be used for extensive housing and leisure developments!

Make of that what you will.

[SteamboatWilley]

@williambraid I like how they call it a "regeneration", when they are just building houses. Yay, people will have somewhere to live, but a fat lot of good that will be if there is no industry to create jobs.

[williambraid]

@SteamboatWilley I say a loud amen to your comment.

[Intercity1251]

My son does a delivery to a factory besides the warehouses and when he spoke about where he was going i said Yes i know where that is you go under the old railway bridge and he said theres no bridge there you must be thinking of somewhere else or old age must be getting the better of you and i couldn't understand why he said theres no bridge....I get it now and i shall send a link to my son the memory hasnt gone yet son E05.Thank you and yes its terrible whats happened down there.

[gixer56]

There'll come a day when the waterfront will be needed again for shipping related industry in much the same way that all these old railway lines that were built over would come in very handy today. Having said that, I can immediately see a flaw in that argument: all the old skills that made Greenock and the Port will have long gone the same way as the docks and yards. Re the new homes - if you jailed all the neds & junkies all these empty houses in the nearby schemes would become viable again.