River Clyde Photography

Wednesday 20 July 2016

Fairlie Moor

Views from Fairlie Moor,looking toward the Isle of Arran Isle of Cumbrae and Little Isle of Cumbrae.

Sunday 17 July 2016

Saturday 16 July 2016

Ayr Harbour

Post card from from about 1920 of Ayr Harbour.

Wednesday 13 July 2016

Sunday 10 July 2016

Ben Lomond

Ben Lomond looming large with Dumbarton town in the foreground.

Thursday 7 July 2016

Burgia

Large Bulker passing Greenock having discharged her cargo at 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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Wednesday 20 July 2016

Fairlie Moor

Sunday 17 July 2016

Azamara Quest

Saturday 16 July 2016

Ayr Harbour

Wednesday 13 July 2016

Waverley

Sunday 10 July 2016

Ben Lomond

Thursday 7 July 2016

Burgia

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