ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to show how cultural or social value has been ascribed to the structures, demonstrating the wider relationship between memory, monumentality, and post-industrial archaeology. It draws on new oral history testimony and a critical analysis of material culture. The chapter juxtaposes the tangible and drastically altered physical landscape of Govan with the intangible landscapes of memory and wider industrial culture. It has collated the material culture relating to the historic skyline of Govan that was pulled apart between 2007 and 2014. It shows the evolving body of literature that seeks to move beyond simply recording industrial apparatus, but rather assess its wider historic value within the context of the connections that people, through memory, have with the physical remnants of industrialism. By using methodological approaches like oral history, the intangible cultural or social landscape can be contrasted with the drastically evolving physical landscape, providing unique insights into wider temporal belonging.
