Blog at the Ballast

Today's photo is from a selection that I had printed to decorate our newly refurbished office space.  It shows paddlesteamers queued up to take people 'doon the watter'. Although this photograph was taken in May that year, I thought this was appropriate for the end of the Glasgow Fair Fortnight when Glaswegians in the past traditionally took a trip down the coast on...

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We've had a very busy week this week with 4 new accessions: Photographs from Ferguson Shipbuilders Rigging Plans from McKenzie Niven Ltd Material relating to North British Locomotive Company Papers from the Sinclair Scott family [rigging plan] ...

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Today's photo is from a series of photos of the William Hamilton shipyard in Port Glasgow.  It was founded in 1867 and moved to their Port Glasgow operations in 1891. The records of William Hamilton and Co. are held by the University of Glasgow Archive Services and some plans are held by the National Maritime Museum.  Details here. ...

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Today's photo comes from a set uploaded from a box of miscellaneous photographs from John G Kincaids. The image below is of the K23 engine.   The engine was fitted in the CLAN MCDONALD built by Greenock Dockyard Co. The collection belongs to Glasgow City Archives. More images from Kincaids are available on our flickr pages. ...

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Today's Friday photo is from a set of images we have for James Lamont Yard at Port Glasgow.  This image of of the mould loft.     This week I've added a few images from the Lamonts folder to the Yards set on Flickr.  There are a few images in the collection with descriptions and dates on the back so I have used them where...

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