A date for your diary and a reason to get yourself through to Edinburgh!
As part of Doors Open Days this year the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) is offering a number of talks and tours at their offices in Edinburgh on Saturday 22nd September.
From their website:
As part of Doors Open Days this year the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) is offering a number of talks and tours at their offices in Edinburgh on Saturday 22nd September.
From their website:
Hear experts talking about our extensive collections and view our exhibitions and fi lms. You’ll also get the chance to go behind-the-scenes to discover how we photograph, measure and draw industrial sites, and fi nd out how these unique images form an important record of Scotland’s industrial past and present.View the programme here.
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| Plans: a 'before' and 'after' |
We focused this year on explaining the different stages of what we do with collections and had a series of themed displays based on the following stages:
- Rescue/desposit
- Processing
- Return
- Access
- Use
We tried to get across the different uses of business archives by a variety of user groups such as model makers, artists, businesses, family and local historians.
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| Use of business archives by model makers |
In December 2012 the Ballast Trust will be celebrating 25 years since its formal establishment. There are plans for a history of the Ballast Trust to be published and this will be available online and shared here. In the run up to the anniversary I am also tweeting extracts from Bill's diary that year starting with the entry for Thursday 3rd September 1987:
McCNAG ~ J. Sutherland's secretary advising Trust Deed returned from Inland Revenue approved as charity.
You can follow the tweets for this under the following hashtag #BTdiaries and all our other tweets @ballasttrust.
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 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)
Thanks to this site for the information. We have images on our Flickr of the Govan Ferry, Renfrew Ferry and Finnieston Ferry.
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 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.