🏛️ Glasgow Harbour Tunnel Rotundas
Victorian hydraulic lift shafts spanning the River Clyde
📋 Fast Facts
- Two red brick rotundas built 1890–1896 by Glasgow Tunnel Company
- Designed by Simpson and Wilson; served 24-metre-deep shafts with Otis hydraulic lifts
- Located at Tunnel Street (Finnieston, north) and Plantation Place (Govan, south)
- Pedestrian and vehicular crossing closed in the 1980s; structures periodically repurposed
The Glasgow Harbour Tunnel Rotundas are two surviving Victorian rotundas of red brick and stone that flank the ...