Greenock Municipal Buildings

Greenock Municipal Buildings is a municipal structure in Clyde Square, Greenock, Scotland. The municipal buildings, which are the headquarters of Inverclyde Council, are Category A listed.

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Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Museum and Heritage Centre

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Museum and Heritage Centre is a museum located within the Old Fire Station on Dalrymple Street which is part of the Municipal Buildings in Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland. It is a museum dedicated to the history of Scotland's fire and rescue service. It houses a wide range of artefacts and stories from the service's long history with displays on the history of firefighting, the development of fire safety in Scotland, and the history of the building. It is open to the public 12 pm to 4 pm on the last Sunday of the month and on days when cruise ships are in port in Greenock.

James Watt College

James Watt College was a further education college in Greenock, Scotland. It is now part of West College Scotland. There were also campuses in Largs and Kilwinning which now form part of Ayrshire College as the result of the merger with Kilmarnock College and Ayr College.

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RAF Greenock

RAF Greenock was a Royal Air Force station in Greenock, Scotland from 1940 to 1945. RAF Greenock was created on 10 October 1940 as a maintenance base for RAF flying boats. Seaplanes had previously been used at the site in the 1930s. The base was hit on 7 May 1941 during the Greenock Blitz, when a hangar and storage facility were hit, and several aircraft were destroyed. The following units were here at some point: No. 2 Flying Boat Servicing Unit (September 1942 - 1945) No. 97 Maintenance Unit RAF (August - October 1945) No. 213 Maintenance Unit RAF (October 1945 - November 1947) Supermarine Stranraers, Consolidated Catalinas and Short Sunderlands were maintained at the site. It ceased to be an RAF base in 1945 but continued in civilian use until 1950. As of 2012, the RAF Club Greenock is still open.

Greenock Central railway station

Greenock Central station is one of eight railway stations serving the town of Greenock in western Scotland, and is the nearest to the town centre. This station, which is staffed, is on the Inverclyde Line, 37 km (23 mi) west of Glasgow Central towards Gourock. It has three platforms, two of which are in use, with one disused bay platform. This disused platform is still connected to the main line. It was originally the terminus before the railway was extended to Gourock and at that time was known as Greenock Cathcart station, as the access road to the station leads off the town's Cathcart Street.