đď¸ Glasgow Harbour Tunnel Rotundas
Victorian hydraulic lift shafts spanning the River Clyde
đ Fast Facts
- Two red brick rotundas built 1890â1896 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 River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Built between 1890 and 1896 by the Glasgow Tunnel Company to designs by Simpson and Wilson, they represent a distinctive feat of late 19th-century hydraulic engineering. The structures covered shafts descending 24 metres (79 feet) to tunnels that once facilitated pedestrian and vehicular traffic across the river ...