River Clyde Photography

Monday 4 August 2014

MV Lochinvar

MV Lochinvar seen passing Dumbarton Rock ,Bowling and Donaldsons light as she makes her way up the Clyde to Glasgow,the event was the Commonwealth Flotilla.

Saturday 2 August 2014

Isle of Arran

Isle of Arran arriving at Ardrossan from her Sunday service to Campbelltown.

Friday 1 August 2014

Kossau

Kossau passing custom house Greenock on a delightful summers evening.

Wednesday 30 July 2014

Tuesday 29 July 2014

Commonwealth Flotilla

Some of the participants of the 2014 Commonwealth Flotilla departing Glasgow.

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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Monday 4 August 2014

MV Lochinvar

Saturday 2 August 2014

Isle of Arran

Friday 1 August 2014

Kossau

Wednesday 30 July 2014

Guillemot

Tuesday 29 July 2014

Commonwealth Flotilla

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