I was born in Gourock. My father was a Clyde Pilot. Loved watching the ships come and go on the river. Sometimes my father would taken me on a tour of Scott Lithgow Shipyard and the new ships built there as his other role was to take new ships on trial.
Born and live on the South Bank and can see the outfitting dock the Lusitania was fitted at..... And 100 years of my family lived and worked on the Clyde as draughtsman, carpenters and marine engineers. The significance that river has been in my family and likely 1000s of others made it seem like a beacon of life and to see it as is nowadays.... It's sad... It feels like unless you lived and died near the Clyde you truly don't appreciate the social and cultural significance it had. Walking the banks now, knowing where things were and ships built, to have been ripped down and replaced by boxes of glass and green lined paths is like looking at the Clyde in an alternate dimension. Anyway, I digress. Nothing stays the same. Thanks for the upload, it's cathartic.
I doubt any of the younger generations, that being anyone 50 and below have any idea just how busy and important the Clyde was to the Scottish economy. And of course all of the collective skills of those who worked there, have sadly been lost to times past.
As an old Greenockian, from a seafaring family, this was a treat to see. It's shameful, though, what was allowed to happen to Greenock and to Clyde shipbuilding especially.
My dad was a docker on the clyde and when we were kids at the bottomof centrre street the dock sheds was our playground killing the rats no playstatoin then it is a disgrace to see the clyde now compare to other countries we were the best shipbuilding team in the world and we had a large iron ore terminal for the metalworks and also Drydocks for the boats Now There is a developer wants to fill in this historic piece of the clyde and build hoses on them what a disgrace how has this been allowed a joke the clyde ws my pllayground
Grandparents lived in. Port Dundas from the 1930 till the 1960 till their teniment collinton street just out side the Clyde. Port. Always. Busy. With. Boats sadly. Wee. Don't. Have. Any. Part. Of the area. Left. As it. Now the motorway
My grandparents lived above Jeanie,s. Sweet shop wee used to get the penny. Tray and pick our. Sweets the close my grandparents stayed in was one of the last to. Come down and they moved to sight hill flats the were just built fountain well avenue grandparents name was Joyce the joyce,s went to saint Joseph's school girls Margret Betty Mary Isobel Agnes Patricia and one boy. James
QE2 was the 1960s, I can vaguely remember the late 1950s, heavy industry in Parkead Foundry, Colville, steelwork where we saw the furnaces at n8ght, red glowing molten metal, handled by men in leather outfits.
I was born in Gourock. My father was a Clyde Pilot. Loved watching the ships come and go on the river. Sometimes my father would taken me on a tour of Scott Lithgow Shipyard and the new ships built there as his other role was to take new ships on trial.
Awesome film, the Clyde means everything to me as a child and now adult . Was born 5 minutes away from the Clyde, the Motherwell side of the Clyde.
I well remember the Clyde in its heyday and have just had the most wonderful giant dose of nostalgia watching that film. Thanks Alex.
Born and live on the South Bank and can see the outfitting dock the Lusitania was fitted at.....
And 100 years of my family lived and worked on the Clyde as draughtsman, carpenters and marine engineers.
The significance that river has been in my family and likely 1000s of others made it seem like a beacon of life and to see it as is nowadays....
It's sad...
It feels like unless you lived and died near the Clyde you truly don't appreciate the social and cultural significance it had.
Walking the banks now, knowing where things were and ships built, to have been ripped down and replaced by boxes of glass and green lined paths is like looking at the Clyde in an alternate dimension.
Anyway, I digress.
Nothing stays the same.
Thanks for the upload, it's cathartic.
A time lost. Great post.🙏🇦🇺👍
I doubt any of the younger generations, that being anyone 50 and below have any idea just how busy and important the Clyde was to the Scottish economy. And of course all of the collective skills of those who worked there, have sadly been lost to times past.
Excellent. Thanks.
Wow. What we lost 😮
Brilliant piece of film probaly my dad was on the dockside
As an old Greenockian, from a seafaring family, this was a treat to see. It's shameful, though, what was allowed to happen to Greenock and to Clyde shipbuilding especially.
We did it to ourselves.
Masya allah
My dad was a docker on the clyde and when we were kids at the bottomof centrre street the dock sheds was our playground killing the rats no playstatoin then it is a disgrace to see the clyde now compare to other countries we were the best shipbuilding team in the world and we had a large iron ore terminal for the metalworks and also Drydocks for the boats Now There is a developer wants to fill in this historic piece of the clyde and build hoses on them what a disgrace how has this been allowed a joke the clyde ws my pllayground
Grandparents lived in. Port Dundas from the 1930 till the 1960 till their teniment collinton street just out side the Clyde. Port. Always. Busy. With. Boats sadly. Wee. Don't. Have. Any. Part. Of the area. Left. As it. Now the motorway
Linda there is still the Forth and Clyde Canal at Port Dundas. I lived in Cowcaddens till I was seven. We move in 1967.
My grandparents lived above Jeanie,s. Sweet shop wee used to get the penny. Tray and pick our. Sweets the close my grandparents stayed in was one of the last to. Come down and they moved to sight hill flats the were just built fountain well avenue grandparents name was Joyce the joyce,s went to saint Joseph's school girls Margret Betty Mary Isobel Agnes Patricia and one boy. James
I wonder if they could have used water to lubricate the gears on the dredger ?
Great stuff Alex. What year, roughly, are we looking at here? Any idea?
As it says in the film, the Queen Elizabeth was being constructed in the shipyard. This would be mid-1930s
I would say the mid sixties because of the QE2 on the slipway.
Disregard that last message, go with the 1930s
QE2 was the 1960s, I can vaguely remember the late 1950s, heavy industry in Parkead Foundry, Colville, steelwork where we saw the furnaces at n8ght, red glowing molten metal, handled by men in leather outfits.