In the heyday of Clyde shipbuilding this office was a hub of activity.

Order books were filled here, it served as a drawing office for vessels of all description, including some of the fastest racing yachts of the era.

Scotway House was built in 1885 for the Meadowside Shipyard run by brothers David and William Henderson.

It was a beautiful red brick and sandstone building designed by the renowned architects firm of Bruce and Hay.

But times have changed, the shipbuilding industry has long gone and Scotway House has for decades been lying unused and derelict.

It stands alone in a vast piece of waste ground between the ultra-modern Riverside Museum and the equally modern Glasgow Harbour flats.

Yet anyone who passes it beside the slip road leading off the Clydeside Expressway will wonder why a building with so much potential has been allowed to fall into a state of rack and ruin.

The companies behind the development of the nearby flats wanted to remove it from its existing site, rebuild it brick by brick and use it as a restaurant.

That plan never came to fruition and a few years ago there were talks about using it as a rock and roll Hall of Fame.

Again nothing has come of it and, sadly, with every passing year the building - which is B Listed - becomes more and more vulnerable.

It would be a tragedy if anything was to happen to the building for it is one of the few left that hark back to the glory days of the Clyde.

The Meadowside yard, during the Victorian era, was at the forefront of yacht-building. The Rainbow, a schooner built in the 1890s, broke records galore.

The Genesta won the first Round Britain yacht race and competed in the America's Cup. Meteor ll was built there for the German Kaiser as were famous racing yachts like Britannia and Valkyrie.

All these vessels - and many more - were designed in the drawing offices of Scotway House.

The Henderson brothers took over the shipyard from David Tod and John MacGregor, who established one of the first dry docks on the river.

In the early part of the 20th century Harland and Wolff took over the running of the Meadowside yard and it built its last ship in 1935.

The building near the mouth of the River Kelvin could tell many a tale of the days when Clyde shipbuilding was at its peak - let's hope the deterioration is halted and it is brought into use again.