River Clyde Photography

Saturday 20 September 2014

Gourock

Gourock town,pictures taken from the ferry returning from Dunoon.

Friday 19 September 2014

Waverley

Waverley arriving at Grenock at the end of a summers evening .

Wednesday 17 September 2014

Monday 15 September 2014

Sunday 14 September 2014

Saturday 13 September 2014

Toward

Clydeports pilot boat seen passing BAE systems shipyard in Glasgow.

Thursday 11 September 2014

HMS Pursuer P273

Royal Navy patrol boat.

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 September 2014

Gourock

Friday 19 September 2014

Waverley

Wednesday 17 September 2014

Aida Cara

Monday 15 September 2014

Svitzer Tug

Sunday 14 September 2014

SD Omagh

Saturday 13 September 2014

Toward

Thursday 11 September 2014

HMS Pursuer P273

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