River Clyde Photography: February 2014

Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Saturday, 22 February 2014

Split-Hopper-Barge B303, owned by Baars of Sliedrecht Netherlands,seen at Ardossan Harbour.
She will be used for taking spoil from the River Cart Westway berth at Steel Engineering, which will be taken to the Holy loch to be dumped.

Friday, 21 February 2014

Ayton Cross

Ayton Cross entering James Watt Dock as the day draws to a close.

Thursday, 20 February 2014

Lorrine WK108

Catching crabs in the Firth,just off the coast at Gourock.

Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Sound of Shuna

Sound of Shuna approaching Mc Inroys point Gourock.

Monday, 17 February 2014

Lady Hester

Lady Hester seen from Gourock,she was on her way to Greenock container terminal.

Sunday, 16 February 2014

Isle of Arran

A blue winter twighlight,looking across the bay from West Kilbride to the Isle of Arran.

Friday, 14 February 2014

PS Waverley

Waverley calling at Greenock on a rainy summers evening.

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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