Old Glasgow. Down the Clyde on the Queen Mary 2. 1963
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- In the early 1960's my Dad went on a day trip down the River Clyde to Rothsey on the steame ship Queen Mary 2.
Thankfully for us he took along his cine camera.
After finding the films in a box in the loft I had them all transferred to disk and this is the first film I have edited from the footage.
The original film had no sound track and I have attempted to create a realistic background soundtrack. If you dont like it you can watch with your speakers off.
Points of interest include;
The Clyde full of cargo ships
Ships being built in the shipyards
Class 303 blue trains
The Queen Mary 2 (the boat we are travelling on)
The Waverly
Submarine travelling up the Clyde
Glasgow trams being broken up in a scrap yard
Hope you enjoy.
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Thanks. As a 35 year old I find it hard to believe that the Clyde was that busy and vibrant so close to the city centre.
Thanks. As a 50 year old,i just about remember the Clyde being so busy.Living in a shipbuilding town,there was always something to see day and night. Last week i went for a peaceful walk along the shoreline from Port Glasgow to Langbank. Then spent ages trying to cross the busy dual carriageway,that wasnt there in the 70s.
I live over in Ireland now and this I know that yill never get a place as welcoming and as real as dear old Glasgow town, love the ppl love the architecture love our history and all our galic connections, Long Live Glasgow long live Scotland long live all our memories wee Are the ppl♡♤♡
thank you for this wee gem
I remember although I wasn't born till 1960, at midnight on Hogmanay, the ships all used to blow their horns and it rang all around the city. I think I saw the sludge boat Shieldhall in there too. She's still going strong with her triple expansion steam engine, the last one working in the world I believe. Great memories from the start though being raised in Cathcart with the blue trains and the first fortnight of every year spent in Millport. Thanks :)
That was a tradition in my house, open the windows hogmanay 5 minutes before midnight, bring in New year with the sound of the boat horns , it saddens me that's all gone now 😢
Thanks for posting this evocative clip. I spent many a memorable Glasgow Fair fortnight throughout the 60s including 1964 at Dunoon that included visits to Rothesay, Largs and Wemyss Bay. I watched this clip imagining that we were there at the time it was filmed.
Thank you---so many memories, though our trips mostly left from Wemyss Bay.
Thanks so much for sharing this with us. There is so much that reminds me of my childhood. I was raised in the Braehead housing estate in Cathcart as well has having a love for everything 'railway' and 'River Clyde. And I remember crossing the river with my dad on the Renfrew Ferry. I know I commented a few months back but this is a very special piece of Glasgow and childhood history to me. I'll bet your father would never have dreamed what he was preserving for us all.
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Absolutely fantastic video. My earliest memory of the Clyde was a trip on the Waverley from Anderson Quay to Dunoon as a 4 year old in 1978. Sadly I never experienced the Clyde during its heyday but this video really does capture what it once was. Its hard to believe it when you see it now. Cheers for converting and uploading, deffo worth the effort with this fine piece of history.
Great video, it may have been earlier than 1964 as the Frigate F104 shown at Yarrows in Scotstoun was launched in 1961 and commisioned in 1963. I ALMOST seen my old home TWICE in Old Kilpatrick.
Like the video very much...it brings me back nice memories ...I was 6y old at that time but I remember many times my granny use to take us for a day on the Clyde with the Waverley paddle steamer.
Absolutely wonderful
A trip doon the watter was a special day for a Greenock wean of the 60's. I was surprised to see the blue trains in a film dated 1963. On the Glasgow-Gourock/Wemyss Bay lines we were still in the age of steam with the electric trains arriving late 60's I think. Lovely bit of nostalgia, thank you!
Im glad you enjoyed it KR. The blue trains you see from the river are on the Dumbarton side. The North Clyde line got blue trains in 1960.
Fantastic thankyou for this video
What a great video! Thanks for posting this. I was taken away from Scotland less than a year after this was taken. I distinctly remember the Clyde being that busy with ships. In fact, I recently saw a video of the Clyde as it is today, and didn't recognise it as my home town area. My grandfather helped to build the QE2, so this was particularly significant to me. Thanks again.
Brilliant film, thanks for uploading.
As well as lovely family memories there's a lot of history in there, it's a joy to watch.
Astounding thanks for sharing
That was really interesting I always knew it would have been busy but that is different level. I will have a new perspective now every time I pass over the Erskine bridge. I worked in Aberdeen at the Harbour branch of the Clydesdale Bank in the early 80's and the window looked out over the end of the pier and I would watch the supply boats come and go if it was not busy with the Dockers and office staff from the supply firms doing their banking. I was born in 1964 in Western Africa as my parents were Church of Scotland Missionary's and we came back and forth by ship into Liverpool and I assume these scenes would have been replicated on the Mersey. I am so thankful you put up this bit of your family history for us all to enjoy and appreciate.
just stunning.....just stunning..thanks for this
Lovely to think that my grampa was most likely working on one of those ships that you passed, he was a welder in the yards
Really marvellous video ;) The reconstructed sound track is pretty good too. When I got to Rothsay the first time (on the Waverley) from Helensburgh, I threw 1d from the twopence change I had in my pocket (change from the fish & chips I'd just eaten) into a slot machine there and out came twelve pennies. I still have one of those in my wallet......That was the first and last time I put money into a slot machine!! I was 11 then. Note the vast numbers of seagulls - there must have been plenty of fish in the Clyde then. Fond memories re-kindled, thanks for posting that film :)
Wonderful bit of history saved forever! The atmosphere is all there for those with the ability to recall it. I guess we are about the same age (retired a wee bit) and I recall the 8mm movie camera being the thing about then and the little round, yellow plastic boxes lying about. I still have several up in the loft! I wonder if our old movies have the general interest yours have; I doubt it. But I might just try one on my channel - a good excuse to dig them out, dust them down and stick them on the projector if I can find some coal to power it up!
I feel a few more visits to CalMac will help to feed my nostalgia! Thanks again!
Thanks again for commenting. My Dad had an idea there was footage of this trip in the loft but until I got it transferred to digital it was such a pain to pull it out and hook up a projector that we didnt know just how much footage and how much detail was there.
Funny youshould mention Braehead. I moved there when I was three and moved out of my parents 11 years ago but ther are still there.
Excellent video, the glory days of the Clyde
Thanks for the video, it was awesome, thanks for sharing. Johnny Russell
Wow 2yrs before I moved to Scotland
Thanks so much for sharing this with us. There is so much that reminds me of my childhood. I was raised in the Braehead housing estate in Cathcart as well has having a love for everything 'railway' and 'River Clyde.' I think I saw the Shieldhall sludgeboat there too with her triple expansion steam engine which is now used for pleasure cruises. And I remember crossing the river with my dad on the Renfrew Ferry. :)
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Fantastic piece of history, now Cunard be annoyed with this video eh!. Always argued about them naming their new liner QM.2 when we already had a Queen Mary.2. Thanks for sharing such a great film, Sir.
Thankfully Cunard have not been in touch but keep in mind, this ship was originally called the Queen Mary. Legend has it Cunard approached King George V to ask permission to name the ship after Britain's greatest queen and he thought they meant his wife Queen Mary. They actually planned to call their ship Victoria. You cannot say no to the King so Cunards ship became the Queen Mary and a deal was struck to re-name the Clyde steamer in this video The Queen Mary 2.
Outstanding video.
Bringing back fond memories. Passing my home town, Dumbarton, i.e. The Rock.
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Great
Even the seagulls have gone.
May I use some of this footage for an upcoming project for a charity? Credit will be given of course.
Whats the charity? I dont mind the use of small parts if credit is given as there is nothing worse than the story of the footage being lost.
@@AstonishingGlasgow The Steamship Shieldhall charity. Next year is the ships 70th birthday and I'm planning to make a 3-part mini-doc about her past. The main part of your footage I'll likely use is at 1:52, as that vessel is the Dalmarnock, her former running mate in the Glasgow Sludge Fleet. It's probable I may use other points of footage from around the Clyde when talking about the vessels of the sludge fleet taking passengers 'Doon the Watter'. I'd rather use actual footage of the very waters that were sailed by the ship, rather than any old footage of any river at any port in the world.
Im glad I said yes now, thats exactly my kind of thing. Am I right in thinking the Edinburgh sister of the Shieldhall was the Gardyloo that now transports drinking water of all things? Please let me know when you have made the video and I will do a piece about it on my Astonishing Glasgow facebook page.
Glad I can keep the footage in line with your interests! :D
The Gardyloo replaced Shieldhall when she left the service of the Glasgow Corporation, so it could potentially be the same ship. I'll need to ask our onboard historian, Graeme McKenzie, whose just released a new book about the ship and her past and understands it like no-one else.
The video won't be ready for another year at minimum. Next year we'll need to give the ship as much attention as possible for her 70th birthday and she has a major dry dock scheduled for 2026.