The Torpedo Factory

Great picture and info, as usual mate

Thanks, Bombardier. Some more history about the site:
The area was originally occupied by the old coastal gun emplacement of Fort Matilda, where the Navy Buildings are, just to the east of the torpedo factory. Landfill from the construction of a nearby railway tunnel was used to form a level area to the west, which became the playing fields of Battery Park. In 1907 the Admiralty compulsory purchased part of this land and constructed the Clyde Torpedo Factory which opened in 1910 with 700 workers transferred from Woolwich Arsenal. Several new streets of houses were built in nearby Gourock to accommodate the influx of workers. The streets were all named after famous admirals, e.g. Nelson, Rodney, Collingwood, Grenville. So there's probably a lot of family links between London and here.
The factory carried out design and manufacture of torpedoes which were tested in Loch Long(just out of shot top left across the river), then during WWII work switched entirely to manufacturing torpedoes.
The earliest work on torpedoes took place towards the end of the 19th century at the Royal Gun Factory, Woolwich. By the mid-1930's design and some production were established at the RN Torpedo Factory (RNTF), Greenock, while other production to Admiralty designs was carried out commercially, notably by the Whitehead Torpedo Company at Weymouth.
In 1937, as re-armament proceeded, a factory(the old Argyll Car Factory), was purchased at Alexandria, Dunbartonshire, to expand production. For the early part of WWII the organisation coped with requirements, but in 1943 the urgent need to expand development led to the creation of a separate entity, the Torpedo Experimental Establishment (TEE), at Greenock on part of the factory site. This was controlled by the Superintendent, Torpedo Experiment and Design (STED). By degrees production was moved to the Alexandria factory which then became RNTF, a process completed by 1947, thus allowing TEE to expand considerably, so that it eventually covered all aspects of torpedo technology, except launching gear. In 1959, however, TEE closed and torpedo research, development and design were concentrated at the newly formed Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment (AUWE) at Portland. AUWE became the Admiralty Research Establishment (ARE), Portland, in 1984.