River Clyde Photography: Cloch Light House and MV Arran

Tuesday 26 August 2008

Cloch Light House and MV Arran

A postcard from the mid seventies, can anybody name the ferry?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: Looks like it may be the MV Arran or Cowal.

Great site - a lot of great photos.; 15 September 2008 at 22:38
Gerard Ward said...: Thanks Gordon

Gerry; 15 September 2008 at 23:24
Anonymous said...: Great picture. It's definatly the ARRAN (1953). BUTE and COWAL did not have the A frame over the stern. Arrans was removed after a few years in service.

Rob; 30 November 2008 at 23:26

River Clyde Photography

Over half of Scotland’s population lives within a short distance of the River Clyde, from its humble beginnings in South Lanarkshire where it is created by two streams the Patrail Water and the Daer Water, the two streams meet at Watermeetings where the River Clyde starts.

It’s not long before it reaches picturesque Lanark and its famous waterfalls. It eventually finds its way to Glasgow who’s citizens in the 18^th century narrowed and deepened and ultimately industrialised the river making it one of the most famous shipbuilding rivers in the world, Glasgow did indeed make the Clyde and of course the Clyde made Glasgow, at its peak the Clyde shipyards built a fifth of the worlds ships.

During the 2^nd world war Winston Churchill said that “Liverpool and Glasgow were the lungs in which the country breathed through”. Ship building along with heavy industry is all but dead on the Clyde, the majority of our industrial heritage was swept away in the 70s and 80s leaving few traces of the rivers famous past.

Leaving Glasgow, the Clyde broadens as you pass the towns of Dumbarton, Port Glasgow and Greenock, who all played a part in making the Clyde famous through shipbuilding.

At the Tail of the Bank the river broadens once more and becomes the firth with its many sea lochs coastal towns and villages.

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Tuesday 26 August 2008

Cloch Light House and MV Arran

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