River Clyde Photography: Puffer

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Thursday 28 June 2018

Vic 32

Vic 32 puffing her way past Clydebank and the entrance to the River Cart.

Tuesday 16 May 2017

Vic 32

Vic 32 passing Braehead on her way to Glasgow.

Sunday 31 August 2014

Vic 32

VIic 32 coal powered puffer,she had been in Glasgow as part of the 2014 Commonwealth Flotilla.
Click HERE for pictures of her at James Watt Dock.

Monday 29 October 2012

Wee Spark

Tied up for the winter at Bowling.

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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Thursday 28 June 2018

Vic 32

Tuesday 16 May 2017

Vic 32

Sunday 31 August 2014

Vic 32

Monday 29 October 2012

Wee Spark

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