The Briggait is an integral part of Glasgow’s architectural heritage. Once the city’s fish market of over a century, the building’s now the headquarters of Scotland’s largest studio providers – Wasps.
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The area around Govan Cross in Glasgow is dominated by the Pearce Institute, known to Govanites as “the PI”. It is a magnificent building, category A listed, and is an eclectic mix of Scottish and Dutch Renaissance styles, with crow-step gables, oriel windows, external iron balconies, and sporting on its roof a sculpture of a fully-rigged sailing ship built by the workers in the local Fairfield shipyard. Designed by the architect Rowand Anderson, the PI celebrated its centenary in 2006, an anniversary which was officially marked by a lunch at the PI on 10 March. William Pearce was the chairman and owner of the Fairfield yard in Govan from 1869 until 1885, after becoming a partner in the firm, then owned by John Elder, in the 1860s. Born in Kent in 1833 he originally worked at Chatham Dockyard before coming north to the then far greater opportunities offered on the Clyde for shipbuilding. Under Pearce, Fairfields became the biggest and probably the most technically advanced shipyard in the world, and his success made him a millionaire by his early death at 55. Pearce became Govan’s first M.P. in 1885, as a Conservative, and was created a baronet in 1887.
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The Pearce Institute was gifted to the people of Govan in 1906 by Lady Elizabeth Pearce in memory of her husband, Sir William Pearce, chairman of the Fairfeild Shipbuilding Company and Govan’s flamboyant first member of Parliament. The aim of the Pearce Institute is to provide facilities in the interest of social welfare, recreation and leisure for the educational, social and moral wellbeing of the people of Govan without distinction of political, religious or other opinion. The PI is at the heart of the regeneration of Greater Govan
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The Briggait is an integral part of Glasgow’s architectural heritage. Once the city’s fish market of over a century, the building’s now the headquarters of Scotland’s largest studio providers – Wasps.
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