Blog at the Ballast

We're finishing up here at the Ballast Trust for the holidays this afternoon. For our final photo of 2012, I'm very happy to share this Christmas card that we found in amongst some of Bill's odds and sods of headed notepaper and supplies of blank stationery. It was an official Christmas card for British Shipbuilders who were the nationalised company that owned and operated...

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On the 4th of December, I gave a talk as part of a joint training day organised by the Business Archives Council of Scotland (BACS) and Archives and Records Association Scottish Region and hosted by Glasgow City Archives to introduce members of both organisations to procedures and processes for handling technical records within their archive collections. Here at the Ballast Trust, we specialise...

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On Friday 7th December, the Ballast Trust had a visit from MSP Annabel Goldie. She met with our Director, Professor Tony Slaven, members of staff and some of our volunteers. We had laid out some examples of the different types of business records that the Trust specialising in working with. There were some beautiful examples of 19th century technical drawings in the form...

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Today's photo is of the PS Galatea, a paddlesteamer built in 1889 by Caird & Company, Greenock for the Caledonian Steam Packet Company. One week to go until our Christmas image is posted... ...

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Today's photo is an unusual one for us compared to the normal ship photos. It is an image of the engine room of the PS Caledonia, built by William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton, Yard no. 1266. ...

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