Tradeston & Port Eglinton Dig Gallery

Aerial Photograph Kinning Street. Excavations at Kinning Street Engine Works and Kingston Biscuit Factory; Kingston Lime Works and Dundas Street Brass Foundry; Caledonia Foundry and Scotland Street Engine Works. The Road on the right is West Street, and to the south is the main Glasgow to Paisley Railway.

Kingston Biscuit Factory. Excavating what we think is the cold store for the Biscuit Factory. Only three courses of white glazed brick survived.

Kingston Biscuit Factory. Features of the Biscuit Factory: running diagonally from the bottom middle of the picture is a flue which moved hot air around the factory to heat different ovens. On either side of the flue are the remains of different floor surfaces.

Dundas Street Brass Foundry. The late metal tanks that you can see in this picture have cut through the earlier brass furnaces.

Scotland Street Engine Works. General view of the Scotland Street Engine works looking to the corner of Scotland Street and West Street. You can see a range of features from wall lines, pillar bases and machine bases.

Scotland Street Engine Works. During a heavy snow shower.

Scotland Street Engine Works. In the foreground is a casting pit. Casting pits were used to create the required product by pouring the molten Iron into a mould.

Scotland Street Engine Works. General view looking north. The main features are a series of brick walls running north/ south and different surviving floor surfaces.

Falfield Mill, Port Eglinton. Aerial photograph. Mauchline Street, Falfield Street and Stromness Street, shows the site of Falfield Mill in the centre. Part of the Glasgow-Paisley-Ardrossan Canal excavation site can also be seen in the bottom left of the picture.

Falfield Mill, Port Eglinton. Another general shot of the site. The lower third of the picture shows bitumen covered floorboards, from one of the later weaving sheds, while the upper two thirds is the area occupied by the engine house.

Glasgow-Paisley-Ardrossan Canal, Port Eglinton. Port Eglinton was the terminus of the Glasgow-Paisley-Ardrossan Canal. Visible are the remains of the canal wharf wall running diagonally across the trench. Parts of the Canal are also still visible.

Glasgow-Paisley-Ardrossan Canal, Port Eglinton. A detail from the base of the canal wall. It would appear that timber piles were driven into the ground and the stone wall was constructed on top of the piles.