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Riverside Inverclyde arranged further refurbishment works, and in 2013 announced that space had already been let to companies including which had planning permission to form meeting rooms and an executive office in the building. Moderate rain total 17mm , heaviest on Mon night. Engineer was remembered in the name of the local college, however this was renamed in 2014 to West College Scotland.

Industry and railways The Cut — Greenock became a centre of industry, with water power being used to process imported goods. The sea pounded tiny boats in the harbour at Portstewart in Co-Derry as Storm Ali swept in Planes were grounded by the storm - with 75 flights have been cancelled at Dublin Airport and ten others diverted yesterday.

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Greenock · ; : Grianaig, pronounced is a town and in the in Scotland and a former within the oflocated in the west of. It forms part of a contiguous urban area with to the west and to the east. The showed that Greenock had a population of 44,248, a decrease from the 46,861 recorded in the. It was printed in early Acts of Parliament as Grinok, Greenhok, Grinock, Greenhoke, Greinnock, and later as Greinok. Old Presbyterial records used Grenok, a common spelling until it was changed to Greenock around 1700. This has been generally dismissed as imaginativebut the image has frequently been used as an emblem or logo, carved on public buildings, used on banners and badges, and was once emblazoned on the local emblem. The town's modern indoor shopping centre is called The Oak Mall and uses a green tree as its logo. The name is also recalled in a local song The Green Oak Tree. Significantly, no green oak appears on the town's which features the three chalices of the Shaw Stewarts, a sailing ship in full sail and two above the motto God Speed Greenock. Anecdotal evidence suggests that there was a 'Green Oak Tree', situated in Cathcart Square,at the top end of William Street, close to the Oak Mall — indeed, a horseshoe set into the cobblestones, between the 'Mid-Kirk' church and the central feature of the square, was where it once, supposedly, grew. Early history: baronies and kirks Hugh de Grenock was created a Scottish in 1296, and the seat of the of Greenock was apparently what became. Around 1400 his successor Malcolm Galbraith died with no sons, and his estate was divided between his two daughters to become two baronies: the eldest inherited Easter Greenock and married a Crawfurd, while went to the younger daughter who married Schaw of Sauchie. Around 1540 the adjoining barony of was passed to the Schaw family, extending their holdings westward to the boundary ofand in 1542 Sir John Schaw founded Wester Greenock castle. The of 1560 closed the chapels in the parish, and as the parish church was some 10 kilometres 6. Later known as the Old Kirk or the Old West Kirk, it was constructed on the west bank of the West Burn estuary and is reputed to have been the first church built in Scotland after the Reformation. Fishing villages and harbours Met office greenock coast of Greenock formed a broad bay with three smaller indentations: the Bay of Quick was known as a safe anchorage as far back as 1164. To its east, a sandy bay ran eastwards from the Old Kirk and the West Burn as far as Wester Greenock castle. The fishing village of Greenock developed along this bay, and around 1635 Sir John Schaw had a jetty built into the bay which became known as Sir John's Bay. In that year he obtained a Charter raising Greenock to a Burgh of Barony with rights to a weekly market. Further east, Saint Laurence Bay curved round past the Crawfurd Barony of Easter Greenock to Garvel or Gravel Point. When a pier or dyke was built making the bay an important harbour, the fishing village of Cartsburn gained the alternative name of Crawfurdsdyke. In 1642 it was made into the Burgh of Barony of Crawfurdsdyke, and part of the ill-fated set out from this pier in 1697. This town was later renamed Cartsdyke. The fishing trade grew prosperous, with barrels of salted exported widely, and shipping trade developed. As seagoing ships could not go further up thethe merchants including the wanted harbour access, but were in disputes with Greenock over harbour dues and warehouses. They tried to buy the Garvel estate for a harbour when Easter Greenock lands were put up for sale to meet debts, but were outbid by Sir John Schaw who then got a Crown Charter of 1670 uniting Easter and Wester Greenock into the Burgh Barony of Greenock. A separate was created, the first baron being Thomas Craufurd. In 1668 the City of Glasgow got the lease of 13 acres 5. The work was completed in 1710, with extended out into Sir John's Bay to enclose the harbour. In 1711 the shipbuilding industry was founded when leased ground between the harbour and the West Burn to build fishing boats. Greenock rapidly became a major port and shipbuilding centre, and though from 1774 deepening of the River Clyde increasingly allowed ships to take merchandise directly to Glasgow, merchants continued to use Greenock harbour. The temporarily interrupted trade, and the gun battery of near the West Burn was extended to guard against the threat ofbut the emphasis shifted to wider markets including imports of and sugar from thewines from Spain, and fish from North America. A business operated for about 40 years. Custom house and steamboats In 1714 Greenock became a port as a branch ofand for a period this operated from rooms leased in Greenock. Receipts rose rapidly from the 1770s, and in 1778 the custom house moved to new built premises at the West Quay of the harbour. By 1791 a new pier was constructed at the East Quay. In 1812 Europe's first steamboat service was introduced by with frequent sailings between Glasgow, Greenock andand as trade built up the pier became known as Steamboat Quay. The custom house needed larger premises, and in May 1817 the foundation stone was laid at the quay for a Custom House building designed bywhich was completed in 1818. Its gracious features a Grecian looking out over the quayside, which was given the name Customhouse Quay. The Custom House underwent extensive refurbishment which was completed in 1989 and, until closure of the building in 2010, housed a customs and museum which was open to the public. Riverside Inverclyde arranged further refurbishment works, and in 2013 announced that space had already been let to companies including which had planning permission to form meeting rooms and an executive office in the building. Greenock's increasing importance and wealth was manifested in the construction of the Municipal Buildings, whose Victoria Tower, completed in 1886, stands 245 feet 75 m tall. Begun five years previously in a competition won by architectsit exceeds the height of the tower of by more than a metre. The Municipal Buildings remain uncompleted, as a local businessman called Robert Cowan refused to sell his building in front of the tower for less than his own price, preventing completion of the right hand façade of the southern elevation. Villas Further evidence of this wealth can be seen in the large villas of Greenock's west end, one time home to the ship owners, industrialists and investors. The area is fronted by the mile long 1. Battery Park and torpedoes At the Newton Street railway tunnel emerges near the coast. The excavated material from the construction of the tunnel was used as landfill to the west of the old coastal gun emplacement of Fort Matilda, forming a level area which became the playing fields of Battery Park. The site was tasked with designing and testing of. These were then tested in. During the the site switched entirely to manufacturing torpedoes. The original gun battery site was occupied by the Navy Buildings, the main offices, just to the east of the met office greenock factory buildings. Old West Kirk A church had been established in Greenock in 1591 under the patronage of John Schaw, the first built in Scotland since the. In 1926, to make way for expansion of the shipyard the present-day location of Container Waythe Old West Kirk was relocated to a new site on the Esplanade where it still stands. The church is notable for by artists such as and Sir. The Church has a website. Second World War Greenock Town Hall Greenock suffered badly during the Second World War and its anchorage at the became the base for the as well as the main assembly point for convoys. On 30 April 1940 the French blew up off Greenock with heavy loss of life following an accident involving two of her own torpedoes. Although this disaster occurred before the Naval Forces were established, many people tend to regard the on as a memorial to the met office greenock of the Maillé Brézé as well as to the later losses of the Free French naval vessels which sailed from the town. On the nights of 6 May and 7 May 1941 around 300 aircraft attacked the town in the. This was later set as a garden for the blind. The original blank brick of Cowans Corner was covered met office greenock 2008 as part of the continuing work to improve the look of the town centre. met office greenock Postwar years Greenock thrived in the post-war years but as the heavy industries declined in the 1970s and 1980s unemployment became a major problem, and it has only been in the last ten years with reinvestment and the redevelopment of large sections of the town that the local economy has started to revive. Tourism has appeared as an unexpected bonus with the development of the Clydeport Container Terminal as an Ocean Terminal for cruise ships crossing the Atlantic. Students who do not travel further afield for study often attend the of Further and Higher Education. Greenock reached its population peak in 1921 81,123 and was once the sixth largest town in Scotland. Governance Main article: The Inverclyde Royal Hospital is located in Greenock serving the population of, the and the. Ravenscraig Hospital deals with psychiatric, day patients, referrals and specialised prescribing. Economy Historically, the town relied onsugar refining and manufacturing for employment, but none of these industries are today part of Greenock's economy. More recently the town relied heavily on manufacture. However this has given way mostly to business, insurance, banking and shipping export. The Fleming and Reid merino wool mill employed 500 people — mostly women and produced wool garments spun and woven at the mill. This mill was at the corner of Drumfrochar Road and Mill Road. As of October 2012 Greenock has an unemployment rate of 5. Shipbuilding Ocean Terminal seen from the esplanade In the early 17th century, the first was built in Greenock. Shipbuilding was already an important employer by this time. The first proper was constructed in 1710 and the first well-known shipbuilders,was established the following year. It was the oldest shipbuilding business in the world and gained numerous contracts with the from 1806, building ships such as the. In 1967 Scott's was merged with founded 1874, later the largest privately owned yard in the world the same met office greenock becomingwhich was later nationalised as part of in 1977. From the 1800 to 1980 many thousands of people worked to design, build and repair ships. The reduction in shipbuilding in the 1970s and 1980s meant that none of these companies are still trading. Greenock Shipbuilders included: Scotts, Browns, William Lithgows, Fergusons, Head the Boat Builder lifeboats. Other marine engineering related companies included engine-makers — Kincaids, Scotts, Rankin and Blackmore which included the Eagle Foundry — ship repair Lamonts and Hasties for steering gear. Yacht builders included Adams and McLean at Cardwell Bay. Other yards included Cartsburn, Cartsdyke, and Klondyke — all of which closed during the 1970s and 1980s due to competition from and Japan. Part of the site of the Met office greenock yard, is now an call centre. Ship repair work continues at the Garvel and Inchgreen dry docks and Shipbuilding continues at in nearby. Shipping Freight traffic is handled at the of Greenock's Ocean Terminal, at Prince's Pier which was constructed for the. The same terminal is a regular port of call for visiting the west of Scotland. Greenock was a regular port of call for Cunard Line and Canadian Pacific in the 1950s and 1960s. Ships on the Montreal to Liverpool transit would anchor at the Tail of the Bank off Greenock in the Firth of Met office greenock and steam paddlewheel ferries would service the liners. Greenock's Great Harbour is one of the three main ports providing marine services support to the Royal Navy, in dual site operation with at on the. Greenock's attractive esplanade provides a gently curving riverside walk just over a mile 1. Sugar Sugar refining began in Greenock in 1765. John Walker began a sugar refinery in Greenock in 1850 followed by the prominent local and shipowner who, with four partners, purchased the Glebe Sugar Refinery in 1865. Another 12 refineries were active at one point. The most successful of these was. It was formed from a merger in 1921 between Abram Lyle, who had expanded intoandwho had set up a sugar refinery in and had expanded into London. The Sugar Warehouse dominates the James Watt Dock By the end of the 19th century, around 400 ships a year were transporting sugar from Caribbean holdings to Greenock for processing. There were 14 sugar refineries, including The Westburn, Walkers, The Glebe, Lochore and Ferguson and Dempster, plus a sugar beet factory on Ingleston Street. Tobacco from the Americas also arrived here. When Tate and Lyle finally closed its Greenock refinery in 1997 it brought to an end the town's 150-year-old connections with sugar manufacture. A newly built sugar warehouse continued shipping operations at Greenock's Ocean Terminal. The former sugar warehouse at the James Watt Dock was by then scheduled as a category A as a fine example of early industrial architecture, met office greenock an unusual feature of a of cast iron columns forming a sheltered unloading area next to the. This building has since lain empty, with various schemes being proposed for conversion and restoration. The photographs show the building still intact in February 2006, but a fire on the evening of 12 June 2006 caused severe damage to much of the building before being brought under control in the early hours of 13 June. The local council confirmed that parts of the building will have to be taken down to ensure public safety, but promised an investigation and emphasised the importance of this world heritage building. Fortunately in 2007, contracts to develop the sugar refinery into housing went ahead and the building is slowly being restored to its grand spectacle alongside the ever increasingly developing waterfront of the East end of Greenock. Many new and exciting housing projects combining new environmentally friendly technologies along with met office greenock fashioned architecture are restoring Greenock's Waterfront fascia to its once glorious former self. Electronics Since arrived in the town in 1951, electronics and light manufacturing have, until recently, been the mainstay of local employment. Formerly has run a manufacturing plant in the town since 1970. However, with manufacturing moving to Eastern Europe and Asia, work has shifted to theespecially call centres. In 1975 it disappeared along with several other streets as the area was as Hamilton Way. In the 1990s it was refurbished again, and The Oak Mall indoor shopping centre in administration as of 21 Met office greenock 2013 now forms the central feature of the town, and provides most of the major retail shops in Inverclyde, with approximately 85 units, with main anchor stores including,and a newly opened store. Marks and Spencer is in its original building dating from 1936 which was simply built round during the first phase of pedestrianisation. In addition, two major supermarkets and are sited near the mall. A retail estate is located nearby, in front of the Waterfront swimming pool and leisure centre, and the streets around the mall provide a large number of smaller shops. Small groups of shops in most of the areas of the town provide for day-to-day needs, but most of the specialist shops are in the town centre. The town contains one diplomatic mission, an Italian consulate. Transport Greenock's most significant transportation connection is the Container Terminal see above. Greenock is Scotland's best served town in terms of railway stations. Only Glasgow has a much greater number of stations and Edinburgh possesses only one more. Located directly under Newton Street in the town, the tunnel allowed for the extension of the railway to. Greenock is served by a number of local bus routes covering the majority of Greenock, Gourock and Port Glasgow. Long distance services travel regularly to Glasgow, Largs and Dunoon. The majority of routes are run by. The Largs to Glasgow corridor is served by three services, the 901, 906 and 908, which provide a bus along this route every 15 minutes for most of the day. Route 907 offers a service from Glasgow's met office greenock Dunoon via Braehead, Port Glasgow and Greenock every 2 hours. The X7 service also offers travel from Greenock to Glasgow, serving the Slaemuir area of Port Glasgow before travelling through Kilmacolm, Bridge of Weir, Houston and Linwood, then joining the motorway to Braehead before heading into Glasgow City Centre. It is also the northern terminus of which heads south through England, France and Spain, ending at the Spanish port and container terminal of. Culture Greenock is one of the settings for 's 1965 novel A Green Tree in Gedde. It is fictionalised as 'Gantock' by in his 1979 novel Fergus Lamont The Gantocks are a rocky in the nearby, just off. Greenock has featured in the poetry of W. Graham evoking his childhood and. Greenock is home to the world's first, which was founded in 1801 by merchants born insome of whom had known Robert Burns. They held the first Burns Supper on what they thought was his birthday on 29 January 1802, but in 1803 discovered from the Ayr parish records that the correct date was 25 January 1759. The landscape artist depicted a somewhat idealised Greenock in several of his paintings. The is the largest museum in the Inverclyde area, featuring exhibitions on and a collection of artifacts. The is a local venue that hosts many comedians, musicians and plays every year. It will be replaced in 2013 by the Beacon Arts Centre. Greenock hosted the in 1904 and 1925. In television Greenock Academy As of 2012, Greenock is the setting for the television dramaafter the series was relocated fromGreater Manchester. The series will be shot ata former secondary school in the west of the town. In film Greenock has featured as the backdrop to several films: the television films 19791988 and Down Among the Big Boys 1993 and the cinema films 2002 and 2004. Media The town has a daily evening newspaper, The. Dating from 1857, it is one of the oldest daily local newspapers in the United Kingdom. Engineer was remembered in the name of the local college, however this was renamed in 2014 to West College Scotland. However his name is still used at the library instituted in his memory, by the original building on the site of his birthplace in William Street which incorporates a commemorative statue and a pub. Two Greenockians, Alexander Bruce and Theophilus S. Marshall, were involved in the drafting of the laws for Australian Rules Football. People associated with Greenock Pirate claimed on that he was born in Greenock, but subsequent evidence has shown that he was born either in or. Her brother fell ill withwhich she caught while nursing him. She died of typhus on 20 or 21 October 1786, and was buried in the Old West Kirk graveyard. In 1842 increasing interest in their romance led to a monument being erected by public subscription to mark the grave. In 1920 when the church site was needed to expand 's shipyard, the monument was moved to its present site in Greenock Cemetery, with her remains being transferred to a casket and re-interred with due ceremony. The church itself was moved and rebuilt in its current location at the west end of the Esplanade in 1926. Founded in 1874 as Morton F. At lower levels of the game, Greenock Juniors F. Greenock met office greenock a team,founded in 1873. It is one of the oldest clubs in Scotland. It is also the home town of the. Public sports and leisure facilities Leisure facilities in Greenock are primarily provided by Inverclyde Leisure. The Robert Burns World Federation Limited. Archived from on 28 September 2007. Famous Sons and Daughters of Greenock. Archived from on 21 August 2008. 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Tobacco from the Americas also arrived here. In 1920 when the church site was needed to expand 's shipyard, the monument was moved to its present site in Greenock Cemetery, with her remains being transferred to a casket and re-interred with due ceremony. The Municipal Buildings remain uncompleted, as a local businessman called Robert Cowan refused to sell his building in front of the tower for less than his own price, preventing completion of the right hand of the southern elevation. Ocean Terminal seen from the esplanade. By 1791 a new pier was constructed at the East Quay. Sports , home of Morton F.