Scotstoun (along with the Govan shipyard) is home to BAE Systems Surface Ships (formerly Yarrow Shipbuilders), and to the Glasgow Warriors rugby team.

[4] This led to the break-up of the estate, as portions were sold off for housing, to create Victoria Park and for further industrial development (iron, engineering and shipbuilding) along the river,[5][6] with companies such as the Coventry Ordnance Works and Albion Motors (1903)[7][8] locating in the area.

The southern part of Scotstoun is characterised by late 19th/ early 20th century tenements adjoining the old shipyards;[9] to the north, and dating from a similar period, is a grid-like estate of mainly terraced cottage style villas with distinctive English styling in wide tree-lined streets, an early example of Ebenezer Howard-type garden suburb town planning.

There was formerly a fine red sandstone school, Victoria Drive Secondary, which opened in 1909 and was closed and demolished in 1998.

Rugby at Scotstoun goes back to the beginning of the 1900s, when the likes of Glasgow HSFP and Kelvinside Accies, along with others, played there on their journeys to Old Anniesland and Balgray respectively.

[18][19] The building differs from those built by the Glasgow School Board in many respects, notably in the inclusion of its distinctive towers.