THESE images of Port Glasgow’s Ardgowan Street are of historical interest but do not reflect the very busy thoroughfare it once was.
The older view looks west along what was the main road connecting the town with Greenock.
An absence of traffic indicates it likely goes back to when motorised transport was in its infancy and very few people had cars.
Tram lines can be seen for the service between Greenock and Port Glasgow introduced in 1889, initially using horse traction.
The other image shows the three storey office block of the Scott Lithgow shipbuilding group, and on the east side of it is the entrance to the Kingston yard.
It possibly dates to the second half of the 1980s and after Scott Lithgow’s Port Glasgow operation had built its final vessel, the self-propelling drilling rig Ocean Alliance.
Pictured is the Goliath crane demolished in 1997. The Scott Lithgow office block came down in 2005 and the other yard buildings likely disappeared around this time.
Ardgowan Street remained the main road between Port Glasgow and Greenock into the 1970s.
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