Blog at the Ballast

Last week, I came to the end of the scans I had done of the prints from the Dan McDonald collection - we ended with Y for Yacht.  I now need to think about what items from the collections we hold ourselves would make good Friday photos for the blog. We have a lovely collection of headed note paper from a variety of...

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I'm very pleased to say that the Ballast Trust now has an official entry on the Archon Directory which is a list of UK archive repositories. Although, we are very much not a traditional repository with collections and operating a public searchroom, we do have some collections that are part of the Trust and are not held by us for processing.  Being part of Archon...

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Image As part of Celtic Connections there is a special commemorative concert being held to mark the 40th anniversary of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders' work-in of 1971–2. This commemorates the support that folk musicians gave to the work-in by holding benefit gigs. ...

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Today's photograph is of an unknown yacht found in the Dan McDonald collection. ...

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The first Friday photo of 2012 is a puffer called X built by Scott and Sons of Bowling in 1882. Specification details are available on the Clydebuilt site.  Details of its career can be found on this great site about puffers here which tells us that it was built for the Leith, Hull and Hamburg Steam Packet Co. and would have worked to ship "cargo along...

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The BBC has been reshowing a programme about Clyde Shipbuilding on BBC Four this week. The Men Who Built the Liners is available to view on iplayer.  The programme is about: Many of the most famous passenger liners in history were built in the British Isles, several in the shipyards along the banks of the Clyde. This series combines personal accounts and archive footage...

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