The PS Waverley is one of the most famous of the Clyde paddle steamers and is now the last sea-going paddle steamer in the world. I'm posting images of it today because the Waverley's Clyde sailings start again today, you can find out more about the timetable here.In the Dan McDonald collection we only have images of the original Waverley, built in 1899...
As promised last week, here's an image to make up for the photoless Friday the 19th!This is a picture of men at work on the Malabar. This was a ship built by Barclay, Curle and Company, Scotstoun and launched on 9 July 1925. More information about the MV Malabar's career can be found here and how it came to be shipwrecked in 1931...
No image today (I'll post one on Tuesday to make up for it) as I'm out of the office. Instead I thought I'd write a little bit about how I put the Friday photos together and find out about the images.So, step 1. I go into our stationary cupboard which has several small filing cabinets full of Dan McDonald's photographs, slides and negatives....
StoryBox is being used by the River Clyde exhibition to capture people's memories and experiences of life on the Clyde. Several stories have been submitted already and include memories of a Clyde engineer, tales about the Renfrew Ferry and some background information about the filming of the opening sequence of Seawards the Great Ships. Which incidentally is being shown on 20th September at...
The Lighthouse in Glasgow is running an exhibition in partnership with Scottish Screen Archive about the River Clyde and films (both documentary and amateur) made about it in the period 1912 to 1971.The exhibition is called the Clyde: Films of the River 1912 - 1971 and features films and images from the Scottish Screen Archive.The exhibition starts this Saturday 20 June and will...
This image is of one of the boats that covered the Govan ferry crossing leaving from the ferry terminal at Govan graving docks. There are several pictures on Scran that show these types of boats and the entrance steps which have helped me to confirm that my guess-timation is correct.The style of boat suggests that this was taken in the late 1970s when...
Its International Archives Day today and Glasgow University have developed a new online collections map to show the international nature of their collections. "Through the collections map, users can gain an appreciation of the impact of Scottish businesses on the development of the world economy and the influence that University of Glasgow, its staff and students have had on the history and development...
Transcribing diary entries as blog posts is an excellent way of re-purposing the information in diaries into an online format and there are lots of good examples of this about:Diary of Samuel PepysGeorge Orwell's DiariesHarry Lamin's WWI lettersUnfortunately, the Ballast Trust doesn't have any diaries or log books in its collections but the Voyage of the Vampire is a great ship related example...
Finally a picture of the type of boat that Dan McDonald was famous for, a puffer. This one is the Pibroch built in 1923 by Scots and Sons, Bowling.There were two Pibroch puffers but this is the first one and was according to this site built "for the Mackie Bros, of the White Horse Distillery of Lagavulin, Islay. She served them and their...
