Great story, I first saw Glasgow in 1966 as a young sailor from the Holy Loch, I was amazed looking at the dock lands and the shipyards along the Clyde, I sure miss them, thanks for the memories

I live in Partick and can remember the docks , my father was a docker and used to work between the KG V , Prince's dock and the Granary , which is now the Harbour housing area , I still remember as a young apprentice travelling home from Birmingham the first time I crossed the Clyde going into Central station and seeing the river empty , around 1979 , shocked isn't the word . Days gone by .

Thanks Eddy for a great informative video. Helpful for this English man to understand and appreciate more about Glasgow’s fine heritage. Whether we call such developments “progress” is a matter for debate, but it surely demonstrates the ebb and flow of man’s existence. Perhaps you give a similar treatment to the development and disappearance of Glasgow’s ship building industry. I would certainly welcome a similar treatment of that subject.

Very moving...and informative. Stunned how I am learning now what should have been taught, in History lessons, whilst I was child at school in Paisley during the 70's and early 80's.

Eddy, congratulations on a wonderful historical documentary. I know the area well as I was born at Vine St/Russel St, took the various ferries back and forth as my friends and I went exploring. My memories have drawn me back to that and other areas along the river has drawn me back and I have attempted to make KZfaq videos of the area as a backdrop for my family to learn from as I moved to Toronto in 1973. So I know the amount of time, research, editing, producing etc that you have put into this wonderful documentary. My best friend who lived up the next close to us on Vine St moved to Kelvinhaugh then a few years later emigrated to N.Z. We visited them a few years ago and I was astounded to find the Crane ship that shows up at around 13.55 in your film. You probably know it was built by Sir William Arrol and appears in many historical photographs which are in the public record. It is no wonder so many men in our family worked in the shipyards as did I having served my time in John Brown’s with training time in Fairfield’s and the Stephen’s training centre. It is entirely possible that we have walked past each other when we were younger. We spent time at Cris Road Park where we Rolled our eggs at Easter and went to the TIVOLI when I had money. Later I spent a year st Balshagary Hamilton Crescent School before moving to Knightswood. The music is fantastic and the whole production is deserving of an Oscar Kind regards Charlie

Brilliant Ed,my granmother was born in stowcross street,our grandfather Thomas Fitzpatrick had a house down facing the water loved the video

Thanks Eddie, alot of my ancestors lived in Glasgow ,your videos give me an idea of what it was like .

Thanks so much for this! What a fantastic video.

The music adds to the poignancy of this great video Thank you for making

Brilliant video Ed, very informative and a real reminder of some of the great industrial heritage that we have lost. Thankyou for bringing history back to mind.

Brilliantly presented. You could argue its getting used for leisure now, fun-fares, pop concerts, shows etc. That is the evolution of mankind. Sure we can mourn the loss of a bygone era, however too suggest it was better place for the folk living at that time would be a stretch.

Great video, thanks 👍 My dad was a Glasgow docker as his dad before him, he unfortunately was killed by a crane falling on him at the docks when my dad was very young. It was a hard and dangerous job.

Thank you My Mam and Dad sailed on Corfu from Burma back to England in 1946 ❤️🙏 Corfu was built in Glasgow back in 1931 ❤️🙏

Mate, you have taken this to another level...this is brilliant.

Great stuff I remember my uncle saying in the 1960s passing the graving Dock in Govan that's the last ship you will see in there. Why they had to destroy the railway infrastructure is beyond me so much fantastic routes for cycling or light electric vehicles. Glasgow City Council continues its policy of allowing ugly developments to be made at high profits for private organisations.

Hi Ed great video loved it having been born in cowcaddins I remember a lot of areas u showed and was lucky to have been treated to lunch by my employer of my first job in 1971 at St Enoch Hotel wonderful memories thanks Ed

Brilliant job on the research and presentation, history really is all around us. You did well finding the old images for past comparisons. Nothing beats "old school" engineering. They just set out to do something and do it. I have always been interested in the "Titan" style cranes. I think there are only 4 left in Scotland of William Arrol's design. Strangely there is one still in regular use in Japan. Great video as always.

Thank you for that...enjoyable and educational.

Another well made and moving Video. Well done!

Well researched as ever, Ed. I lived in Overnewton, next to the Haugh, until age seven. I remember the loud ships' horns when it was foggy, and at the bells.

Brilliant video

Just re-watched... Incredibly well done :-) Shared your link on a few social media locations where people might be interested in coming to watch.

Hi Eddy, this is surely one of your very best video productions. The shipbuilding industry on the Clyde was the envy of the world and you have demonstrated that very well. It was really interesting to see the iconic old pictures and layout of the shipyards. Well done Eddy, keep well and stay safe, regards Rob.

As a govanite, this took me back to my younger day's. Family worked in Fairfield's and Stephens. I am amazed how you come up with all these different subjects. Very professionally carried out. Hollywood becones 👍👍

Thanks Ed for this well researched and informative video. Very much appreciated.. I love how you bring old Glasgow to life.

Superb stuff thank you for this.

Thanks for posting

excellent presentation, with some very good pictures thanks :)

Fantastic as always Ed!

It must have been the late 70’s when me and two friends swung a huge long thick wooden log lying at the side of the quay, perhaps 4 metres by 0.5 metres by 0.5 metres straight into the water head first to see if it would go straight in then straight up out again and it did.

Brilliant video thanks for uploading

fantastic video thanks for putting this together and one day it will be seen in schools and many more places to show how a city becomes a home that we were proud of amen

Great video Eddy. Thanks for all the research and thoughtfulness you put in to your work on these wonderful looks back in time. Footprints of our past may get covered over, but having historians like you will forever keep us connected. Thanks so much. Lynn 😎

Excellent video. Nice wee summary of this part of Glasgow's geography and history.

Great Ed hard to imagine the hustle and bustle that once was on the Clyde 👍

I really enjoyed this presentation. Thank you. Watching from Cairns in Far North Queensland (aka FNQ) Australia. 😊

Great video , brings back memories

Iwas born in 1946, and St Enochs station was iconic, how anyone could just decide to obliterate it is beyond imag8nation

Another excellent video Eddy, can u make one on the water powered industries of the river cart? 1700s ??

Great stuff! Thank you.

In the centre quay in queens dock there was a Sea School where seafarers prepared for their exams for EDH, A/B & lifeboat certificates which was administered by the Board of Trade. I sat all three in 1966.

Great video and a great help😊

Glasgow still gets Ships arriving most Days, but it's down at the kgv-dock and Rothsay Dock.

Great video. Thanks Ed. So many wonderful photographs, many of which I'd not seen before. I didn't know that the magnificent St.Enoch building had been used to fill in part of the dock where the Science Centre now sits. It's mind-boggling the extent of the cultural / architectural vandalism the City Fathers have inflicted on our dear green place. Such poignant music as an accompaniment brought tears to my eyes at points. I also hadn't realised that the rising sediment of the Clyde was the cause of the demise of the shipping lanes into the city. I didn't know about the swing bridge either. Incredible feats of engineering, all but vanished.

I meant to mention we often played in the “spare ground” at the bottom of Hayburn Street, directly opposite the grand H&W Fabrication Shop. I can remember the remains of slipways but never knew at the time what the history of that area was

It is sad that I now live in my Home City and still get homesick.

Superb! Great music too.

Its recent history, the last of the Glaswegians . I started my saturday shop job aged thirteen,a few hundreds yards from Beardmore's, aka today, The Forge. Colvilles was tapping furnaces at night in winter as i passed by in father's car, not many folks had a car.

Good story Eddy. I was in Mumbai harbour a month ago (Bombay) it was good to see that those docks built so long ago are still in good condition and still used. On a drive from the dock back to my hotel, we passed warehouses similar to the ones you show in the video, with a solid sign in stone saying built in 1872. I wonder if our young people today know what their forefathers achieved.

Fabulous film and narrative Eddie, thoroughly enjoyed it. If I could just point out one thing, and that is that Glasgow Harbour - and indeed the entire upper reaches of the Clyde were man made. A shallow waterway made deeper by hard engineering and dredging but that was limited to the level of the underlying bedrock so it was never going to make it to the age of big ships.

Great as usual Sir 👌🏼

A great production Ed. I've just finished Billy Connolly's autobiography and he talks of his early working life building ships on the Clyde. I assume that would be a different location to the one featured here. He also mentions that he lived in Partick, your neck of the woods.

Great documentary, I was born in 79 when the ships stopped coming up, I still remember the warehouse’s along the expressway and the dock, I think it was st george’s dock I might be wrong

Very interesting. The decision to close this station was another mistake imo.

Sad to see the clyde now compared to how it was but as you say eddy things move on. Its a bigger tragedy that just about all of the shipyards have gone. The cheaper labour in the far east saw to that as well👍

Hi Eddie, thanks yet again for a great video, I love listening to your voice without the pics even and love the music on this video can you tell me what the music is? Again, thanks, linda 🙋‍♀️🌻

I would love to know more about tradeston !

Moving documentary. I think the Finnieston crane was used to fit a new boiler in the Waverley around the early 80's.

Fascinating, Eddy!! I'm not sure this loss of heritage is actually progress..... It's not just at Glasgow docks - the Goliath crane at Scott-Lithgow (Greenock) was also pulled down.... 🤔

Hi eddy I haven't got through all your videos yet have you done anything on the glasgow garden festival 88. I worked there would be really interested ❤

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How deep is the Clyde at Govan?

scotland was an economic threat to england so had to be stopped before it could not be destroyed. it had tried with different ways from sending in armies and clearances. it was also how thatcher destroyed scotland . it was all deliberate and workd.

music and stills too much

This breaks my heart as a Glaswegian and bred. Where once was Ships , Glasgow a total Powerhouse of a City now a City full of Economic Migrants bleeding the system and our City dry Economic Migrants Junkies everywhere no shame, Romanian beggars on every corner, Alkies and Wee Neds running amok. Glasgow Men and Policemen of old would have taken total control of these people. Wtf is wrong with our Men now?So so afraid to offend turned into Women parading about in women’s clothing, make up, cheap wigs etc. As a Glaswegian it is embarrassing. Glasgow was an industry powerhouse with architecture to rival anywhere in the world The Glasgow City Council and SNP government are only interested in cheap student accommodation and Crap hotels. I wonder who’s palm is being greased! Save Glasgow’s beautiful buildings and Amazing Glaswegian people not fakes scroungers or pretentious People coming in and taking over. I thought us as Glaswegians had more grit than that? Shameful.