Sugar Sheds

My car was in for a service today at the VW dealer at Cappielow. When I collected my car this afternoon I popped across the road to the Sugar Sheds.

Greenock’s sugar sheds are a vast memorial to the days when 400 ships a year brought sugar here from the Carribbean, and the town had no fewer than 14 refineries. Since the last one closed in 1997, the sheds have been the focus for a variety of regeneration projects, though their main use at the moment is to winter the elegant yachts from the nearby marina.

A campaign continues to ensure that this Victorian cathedral of brick and wrought iron is put to good use in a way that involves the community that they were built for.

Absent Voices has been devised to explore and preserve in words, pictures, song and sound, the legacy of Greenock’s once mighty sugar industry.