Blog at the Ballast

Today's photo is of the Finnieston Vehicular Ferry carrying horse drawn vehicles.  The Clyde had several ferry crossings, including: 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...

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For today's photo I couldn't resist this random but wonderful image of a Penman's boiler being loaded/unloaded? onto a boat. The records of Penman & Co. Ltd are held by Glasgow City Archives.  At the Ballast Trust we have a collection of job files that we will be processing and adding to the existing collection TD244.  From the SCAN entry for Penman & Co.Ltd: The...

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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...

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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.   Open publication - Free publishing - More annual report ...

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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. It is a FREE workshop to encourage students and academic researchers to make the most of Business Archives will be held at the University of Glasgow. It will bring...

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