page_title: Park Quay
section_title: Description of the quay, dock and slipway
hierarchical_section_title: Park Quay / Description of the quay, dock and slipway
caption_attribution_description: English: Park Quay, ship graveyard mud punts wrecks, River Clyde, Erskine - view east
context_page_description: The disused Park Quay or Fulton's Quay is located on the old Lands of Park, situated on the south bank of the River Clyde in the Parish of Inchinnan, close to Newshot Island and the old Rashielee Quay. A slipway is also part of the infrastructure, giving access to the dock at low tide, both once served by roads running through the Park Estate from the south. It was recorded as Fulton's Quay in 1830, the name of a previous owner of the Park Estate who may have built it prior to 1801. A fixed light was installed at Park Quay in 1869.
context_section_description: Both the quay and associated slipway were once served by the aforementioned roads that ran to the slipway basin or dock and along the quay. The basin is 54 m long and 10 m wide, with a jetty built with small stones composing the eastern side and a ruinous wall formed of well dressed larger stone blocks forming its western side. Park Quay jetty is 70 m long and 16 m wide. The eastern jetty is ruinous towards its terminus and the eastern side facing the dock appears to have partially collapsed at some point. A basic repair appears to have been made with a row of wooden piles used to keep the loose stone in place. A slipway at its southern end once enabled access to the river basin at low tide levels.
  The OS map of Renfrewshire in 1864 shows a wide jetty with a flagstaff and a small building on the western side. It appears to have extended into the river as far as the low water mark, but the shoreline has altered considerably over the years due to dredging, building of training dikes, jetties, etc. Between 1864 and 1895 a dock or basin was built also extending into the Clyde towards the low water mark. The jetty is portrayed as if it was damaged by erosion, floods, etc and a repair effected using wooden piles that are still visible. The eastern jetty in 1857 had a possible crane and a partly curved and strengthened end. In the 1920s or 30s the jetty terminus appears to have been altered and given a straight sided profile. In 1905 the quay seems to still have been in use given that it's marked as such and a beacon stood near by on the upstream direction, possibly on the circular stone structure that once stood in that location. In 1939 the quay was not marked as disused, unlike the abandoned Rashielee Quay, and the repaired eastern dock wall is shown as a linear structure and the terminus of the jetty is linear. Rashielee Quarry and its quay stood near by and provided much of the whinstone used in the construction of quays, jetties, training walls, etc on this part of the Clyde.
  From the evidence of the 1895 OS map a circular pile of stones was located at the low tide level a short distance up river and as stated this may be the one erected in 1869, carrying the beacon shown as a navigation aid in the 1905 OS map. This structure is now just an irregular pile of stones.
caption: The mud punt ship graveyard.
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