River Clyde Photography: Millport

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Sunday 17 September 2023

Puffin Island

Puffin Island tug and Abeko Server 1 a backhoe dredger at Keppel Pier, they are preparing to start work on Milports £27 million flood prevention scheme.

Friday 17 July 2015

Friday 3 April 2015

Sunset Largs

Sunset taken from Largs,looking towards the Isle of Cumbrae and the mountain peaks of Arran in the background.

Monday 23 June 2014

Millport

Seen passing the Isle of Cumbrae with the mountain peaks of Arran in the background.

Tuesday 18 September 2012

Millport Isle of Cumbrae

A panorama of the bay at Millport Isle of Cumbrae.

Saturday 12 February 2011

WD Mersey

WD Mersey dredging the river beside Glasgow's new transport museum.

Friday 19 February 2010

Millport Harbour

The harbour on a sunny winters day.

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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Sunday 17 September 2023

Puffin Island

Friday 17 July 2015

Millport

Friday 3 April 2015

Sunset Largs

Monday 23 June 2014

Millport

Tuesday 18 September 2012

Millport Isle of Cumbrae

Saturday 12 February 2011

WD Mersey

Friday 19 February 2010

Millport Harbour

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