River Clyde Photography

Tuesday, 13 September 2016

Ludwigshafen am Rhein F264

The K130 Braunschweig class (sometimes Korvette 130) is Germany's newest class of ocean-going corvettes. They supplement the Gepard-class fast attack craft that are currently in service.

Monday, 12 September 2016

Saturday, 10 September 2016

Erskine

Looking upriver from Erskine towards Clydebank.

Thursday, 8 September 2016

Courisk

Courisk arriving at Gourock on a winters evening.

Monday, 5 September 2016

Sunday, 4 September 2016

TS Queen Mary

TS Queen Mary arriving back on the Clyde for restoration.
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Saturday, 3 September 2016

Weat Kilbride

Celtic cross in West Kilbride cemetery with the mountains of the Isle of Arran in the background.

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, 13 September 2016

Ludwigshafen am Rhein F264

Monday, 12 September 2016

Caledonain Isles

Saturday, 10 September 2016

Erskine

Thursday, 8 September 2016

Courisk

Monday, 5 September 2016

Gourock Bay

Sunday, 4 September 2016

TS Queen Mary

Saturday, 3 September 2016

Weat Kilbride

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