River Clyde Photography

Saturday 20 February 2010

HMS Ark Royal R07

HMS Ark Royal ,Invincible Class 22,500 tons built in 1985 at Swan Hunter

Friday 19 February 2010

Bruiser

Bruiser heading back to Victoria Harbour Greenock

Thursday 18 February 2010

HMS Hurworth M39 hunt class returns home to Faslane after an exercise in Loch Long,her escort id SD Impulse.

Wednesday 17 February 2010

Tuesday 16 February 2010

Sunday 14 February 2010

SD Omagh

Passing Greenock on her way to the Great Harbour.

Saturday 13 February 2010

SD Mars

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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 20 February 2010

HMS Ark Royal R07

Friday 19 February 2010

Bruiser

Millport Harbour

Thursday 18 February 2010

Wednesday 17 February 2010

Victoria Harbour

Tuesday 16 February 2010

Ayton Cross

Sunday 14 February 2010

SD Omagh

Saturday 13 February 2010

SD Mars

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