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| | History of London Yard Part 1 |
 | | In 1856-7 Robert Baillie and Joseph Westwood, subcontractors and managers at Ditchburn and Mare’s shipyard at Orchard Place for nearly 18 years, set up in business as shipbuilders, boilermakers and ironworkers, in partnership with James Campbell, in a new yard at Cubitt Town. |
 | | Westwood, Baillie, Campbell and Company’s London Yard was a parcel of land between Manchester Road and the Thames with a river frontage of 450 ft. By the end 1857 it was already considerably developed, with a smiths’ shop, boiler shop, machine shop, iron store, engine and boiler-houses, furnace shed, offices and a gridiron. |
 | | Westwood, Baillie and Company regained nominal control of London Yard in 1872, continuing mainly with civil-engineering projects, in particular the construction of prefabricated iron and steel bridges for developing countries. |
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