YOU can almost taste the steam and stoor in this 1932 picture of the then new Finnieston Crane.

The mighty beast, capable of lifting 175-ton steam locomotives from the quayside into the holds of waiting ships, was under-going testing, hence the load of sleepers at the end of its boom.

Perhaps more interesting, certainly to the hungry sailors who would regularly crowd the quays of the Clyde, is the billboard, advertising the docks' sailors' restaurants.

With men from all over the Empire coming and going, the three dock eateries faced a constant struggle to keep them fed and watered.

For a few pence, the men would get a filling and hearty meal and, if they fancied a night ashore, they could bed down at the nearby sailors' home.