River Clyde Photography

Saturday, 4 March 2017

Ferguson Marine

Isle of Arran ferry taking shape on the slipway of Ferguson Marine.

James Watt Dock

Loch Fyne,Clansman and Hebridean Princess seen at James Watt Dock Greenock.

Guide Us

Guide Us hard at work on the Firth,her home is James Watt Dock Greenock.

Thursday, 2 March 2017

Firth of Clyde

A panorama showing the hills above Strone and the entrance to Loch Long,the picture was taken from Gourock.

HMS Raider

HMS Raider is one of two patrol boats that form the Faslane Patrol Boat Squadron (FPBS). Formed in March 2010, the Squadron provides Force Protection in and around Faslane,

Wednesday, 1 March 2017

Maryhill

More at home on the Forth and Clyde canal,however she made a visit to Glasgow as part of the Commonwealth Flotilla.

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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Saturday, 4 March 2017

Isle of Arran

Ferguson Marine

James Watt Dock

Guide Us

Thursday, 2 March 2017

Firth of Clyde

HMS Raider

Wednesday, 1 March 2017

Maryhill

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