Blog at the Ballast

• York Street Ferry (York Street to West Street) 
• Clyde Street Ferry (Clyde Street, Anderston, to Springfield Quay) 
• Hyde Park Ferry (Hydepark Street to Springfield Quay) 
• Stobcross Ferry (Finnieston Quay to Mavisbank Quay) 
• Finnieston Ferry (Finnieston Quay to Mavisbank Quay) 
• Kelvinhaugh Ferry (Yorkhill Quay to Princes Dock) 
• Govan Ferry (Ferry Road, Partick, to Water Row, Govan) 
• Meadowside Ferry (Meadowside Street, Partick to Holm Street, Govan) 
• Whiteinch Ferry (James Street, Whiteinch to Holmfauld Road, Linthouse) 
• Renfrew Ferry (Yoker to Renfrew) 
• Erskine Ferry (Dunbartonshire to Renfrewshire)

The Glasgow firm of Penman & Co, boilermakers, Caledonian Iron Works, was established around 1870 and by 1900 occupied a three-acre site at its Caledonian Iron Works in Strathclyde Street, Bridgeton (built 1889). The firm was incorporated in 1907 and from 1920 was owned by Babcock & Wilcox. It specialised in land boilers, which were exported worldwide.

This photograph from our Dan McDonald collection was used by the Scottish Council on Archives as the front cover for their August edition of Broadsheet.

When we provided the image, I was only about to tell SCA that our description for it was 'Man on Hopper 7' and that we knew that Hopper no. 7 had been built by Lobnitz and Co., Renfrew in 1911.

Since then and in response to an enquiry that the SCA got about the man.  We have looked at our photocopies of Dan's original negative registers (held by Glasgow City Council Archives) which had more information about the photo.  So I can reveal that the man in question is Captain Duncan MacLeod and the photograph was taken on the 24th May 1948.

Our annual reports are now available in a snazzy online reading format over on Issuu.  This means that you can read the 2012 Annual Report and also our 2011 Annual Report.
 

Some shameless self-promotion this afternoon with an image of the Meet the Archivists poster that I have designed for this November event. The Meet the Archivists event will take place on November 9th 2012.