wild wadi wrote:
We should make a loop tape....Ah! forget it.

Stewie Griffin wrote:

wild wadi wrote: We should make a loop tape....Ah! forget it.

Thought I'd read this story before...

PS... Stewie, I heard you were being made redundant after seven amazing seasons - it seems apparently you are the focus of possible lawsuits as people want to sue your maker!

Such a shame - you really are a funny guy!

Stewie Griffin wrote:

PS... Stewie, I heard you were being made redundant after seven amazing seasons - it seems apparently you are the focus of possible lawsuits as people want to sue your maker! Such a shame - you really are a funny guy!

Only the best lawyers will do.

The Missing City wrote:

Stewie Griffin wrote:

wild wadi wrote: We should make a loop tape....Ah! forget it.

Thought I'd read this story before...

The story you refer to Stewie may be in reference to the houses planned for Golspie Street Theres also other ones planned for the area close to what was the Wine Alley - Neptune Street But these houses are to be built on the site of what I believe to be was the first major shipyard in Glasgow to close - Harland and Woolf back in 1963. If I'm wrong though I shall stand corrected - only going on reference material I have in my possession for which I have millions of stuff in archive boxes. Anyway - this from the site relating to Riverside Projects Linthouse Housing Association is developing proposals for two vacant sites in Aboukir Street. The proposals, which are being made in conjunction with Glasgow City Council, are for 10 flats to be built on each site. Of the twenty flats, ten will be for sale as low cost home ownership and ten will be for affordable rent with four wheelchair accessible flats on the ground floor. The ground conditions for the sites is currently poor so extensive piling will be required. However, the sites offer an exciting architectural opportunity. The brief was to be modern and bold and Do Architecture have certainly been bold with the proposed use of a new copper alloy which will make the flats appear as if they are made of gold. Source: www.clydewaterfront. com/aboukirstreet.as px PS... Stewie, I heard you were being made redundant after seven amazing seasons - it seems apparently you are the focus of possible lawsuits as people want to sue your maker! Such a shame - you really are a funny guy!

jrb wrote:

The Missing City wrote:

Stewie Griffin wrote:

wild wadi wrote: We should make a loop tape....Ah! forget it.

Thought I'd read this story before...

The story you refer to Stewie may be in reference to the houses planned for Golspie Street Theres also other ones planned for the area close to what was the Wine Alley - Neptune Street But these houses are to be built on the site of what I believe to be was the first major shipyard in Glasgow to close - Harland and Woolf back in 1963. If I'm wrong though I shall stand corrected - only going on reference material I have in my possession for which I have millions of stuff in archive boxes. Anyway - this from the site relating to Riverside Projects Linthouse Housing Association is developing proposals for two vacant sites in Aboukir Street. The proposals, which are being made in conjunction with Glasgow City Council, are for 10 flats to be built on each site. Of the twenty flats, ten will be for sale as low cost home ownership and ten will be for affordable rent with four wheelchair accessible flats on the ground floor. The ground conditions for the sites is currently poor so extensive piling will be required. However, the sites offer an exciting architectural opportunity. The brief was to be modern and bold and Do Architecture have certainly been bold with the proposed use of a new copper alloy which will make the flats appear as if they are made of gold. Source: www.clydewaterfront. com/aboukirstreet.as px PS... Stewie, I heard you were being made redundant after seven amazing seasons - it seems apparently you are the focus of possible lawsuits as people want to sue your maker! Such a shame - you really are a funny guy!

T.M.C Your about half a mile out regarding site of former shipyard Harland & Woolf.It's situated the other side of govan cross not far from the dry dock,I stayed across from it near blackburn st.

The Missing City wrote:

jrb wrote:

The Missing City wrote:

Stewie Griffin wrote:

wild wadi wrote: We should make a loop tape....Ah! forget it.

Thought I'd read this story before...

The story you refer to Stewie may be in reference to the houses planned for Golspie Street Theres also other ones planned for the area close to what was the Wine Alley - Neptune Street But these houses are to be built on the site of what I believe to be was the first major shipyard in Glasgow to close - Harland and Woolf back in 1963. If I'm wrong though I shall stand corrected - only going on reference material I have in my possession for which I have millions of stuff in archive boxes. Anyway - this from the site relating to Riverside Projects Linthouse Housing Association is developing proposals for two vacant sites in Aboukir Street. The proposals, which are being made in conjunction with Glasgow City Council, are for 10 flats to be built on each site. Of the twenty flats, ten will be for sale as low cost home ownership and ten will be for affordable rent with four wheelchair accessible flats on the ground floor. The ground conditions for the sites is currently poor so extensive piling will be required. However, the sites offer an exciting architectural opportunity. The brief was to be modern and bold and Do Architecture have certainly been bold with the proposed use of a new copper alloy which will make the flats appear as if they are made of gold. Source: www.clydewaterfront. com/aboukirstreet.as px PS... Stewie, I heard you were being made redundant after seven amazing seasons - it seems apparently you are the focus of possible lawsuits as people want to sue your maker! Such a shame - you really are a funny guy!

T.M.C Your about half a mile out regarding site of former shipyard Harland & Woolf.It's situated the other side of govan cross not far from the dry dock,I stayed across from it near blackburn st.

Cheers Jayarrbee Wasn't so sure, so was that the Alexander Stephen's yard that was there (or something to that effect)? Fairfields was definitely next door - my amazing and well educated Grandfather worked there from 1963 until 1979 when he retired, I even have photos of him driving some kind of Fairfields cargo train on the tram rails of Govan Road around 1964 - taken by a guy who lived in Huddersfield. I've actually found some online reference Alexander Stephen Opposite Merklands Quay on the south bank, this yard existed up until 1969 - another fine yard vanishing forever. Land is mostly derelict now. Harland & Wolff Directly opposite Yorkhill, it too closed around the time of A & J Inglis and the land was relatively quickly reclaimed for local authority housing. (That will be the site of the white, now re-clad houses of the GHA that sit across from what was the TSB Bank on Govan Road) I think thias is where I get the year 1963 from A & J Inglis Our first shipyard. This yard sat in between Yorkhill and the River Kelvin and was where WAVERLEY was built in 1947. The yard closed in 1963, just over 100 years since it began. The area is rather derelict now, but is being cleared as the site of Glasgow's new transport museum. As said earlier - I have copious amounts of material sitting in boxes at home and for some, it has been a few years since I last looked at anything, not that all material is now online, far from it. Good stuff to know all the same ;-)

jrb wrote:

The Missing City wrote:

jrb wrote:

The Missing City wrote:

Stewie Griffin wrote:

wild wadi wrote: We should make a loop tape....Ah! forget it.

Thought I'd read this story before...

The story you refer to Stewie may be in reference to the houses planned for Golspie Street Theres also other ones planned for the area close to what was the Wine Alley - Neptune Street But these houses are to be built on the site of what I believe to be was the first major shipyard in Glasgow to close - Harland and Woolf back in 1963. If I'm wrong though I shall stand corrected - only going on reference material I have in my possession for which I have millions of stuff in archive boxes. Anyway - this from the site relating to Riverside Projects Linthouse Housing Association is developing proposals for two vacant sites in Aboukir Street. The proposals, which are being made in conjunction with Glasgow City Council, are for 10 flats to be built on each site. Of the twenty flats, ten will be for sale as low cost home ownership and ten will be for affordable rent with four wheelchair accessible flats on the ground floor. The ground conditions for the sites is currently poor so extensive piling will be required. However, the sites offer an exciting architectural opportunity. The brief was to be modern and bold and Do Architecture have certainly been bold with the proposed use of a new copper alloy which will make the flats appear as if they are made of gold. Source: www.clydewaterfront. com/aboukirstreet.as px PS... Stewie, I heard you were being made redundant after seven amazing seasons - it seems apparently you are the focus of possible lawsuits as people want to sue your maker! Such a shame - you really are a funny guy!

T.M.C Your about half a mile out regarding site of former shipyard Harland & Woolf.It's situated the other side of govan cross not far from the dry dock,I stayed across from it near blackburn st.

Cheers Jayarrbee Wasn't so sure, so was that the Alexander Stephen's yard that was there (or something to that effect)? Fairfields was definitely next door - my amazing and well educated Grandfather worked there from 1963 until 1979 when he retired, I even have photos of him driving some kind of Fairfields cargo train on the tram rails of Govan Road around 1964 - taken by a guy who lived in Huddersfield. I've actually found some online reference Alexander Stephen Opposite Merklands Quay on the south bank, this yard existed up until 1969 - another fine yard vanishing forever. Land is mostly derelict now. Harland & Wolff Directly opposite Yorkhill, it too closed around the time of A & J Inglis and the land was relatively quickly reclaimed for local authority housing. (That will be the site of the white, now re-clad houses of the GHA that sit across from what was the TSB Bank on Govan Road) I think thias is where I get the year 1963 from A & J Inglis Our first shipyard. This yard sat in between Yorkhill and the River Kelvin and was where WAVERLEY was built in 1947. The yard closed in 1963, just over 100 years since it began. The area is rather derelict now, but is being cleared as the site of Glasgow's new transport museum. As said earlier - I have copious amounts of material sitting in boxes at home and for some, it has been a few years since I last looked at anything, not that all material is now online, far from it. Good stuff to know all the same ;-)

And it's a pity that it's all gone,apart from the excellent museum situated at braehead there's nothing to celebrate the 200 years of clyde shipbuilding.And for goodness sake look what we have got in return, a underused ,and under financed ribbon of gold from coast to city centre, other countries have put their rivers to better use than Glasgow.

The Missing City wrote:

jrb wrote:

The Missing City wrote:

jrb wrote:

The Missing City wrote:

Stewie Griffin wrote:

wild wadi wrote: We should make a loop tape....Ah! forget it.

Thought I'd read this story before...

The story you refer to Stewie may be in reference to the houses planned for Golspie Street Theres also other ones planned for the area close to what was the Wine Alley - Neptune Street But these houses are to be built on the site of what I believe to be was the first major shipyard in Glasgow to close - Harland and Woolf back in 1963. If I'm wrong though I shall stand corrected - only going on reference material I have in my possession for which I have millions of stuff in archive boxes. Anyway - this from the site relating to Riverside Projects Linthouse Housing Association is developing proposals for two vacant sites in Aboukir Street. The proposals, which are being made in conjunction with Glasgow City Council, are for 10 flats to be built on each site. Of the twenty flats, ten will be for sale as low cost home ownership and ten will be for affordable rent with four wheelchair accessible flats on the ground floor. The ground conditions for the sites is currently poor so extensive piling will be required. However, the sites offer an exciting architectural opportunity. The brief was to be modern and bold and Do Architecture have certainly been bold with the proposed use of a new copper alloy which will make the flats appear as if they are made of gold. Source: www.clydewaterfront. com/aboukirstreet.as px PS... Stewie, I heard you were being made redundant after seven amazing seasons - it seems apparently you are the focus of possible lawsuits as people want to sue your maker! Such a shame - you really are a funny guy!

T.M.C Your about half a mile out regarding site of former shipyard Harland & Woolf.It's situated the other side of govan cross not far from the dry dock,I stayed across from it near blackburn st.

Cheers Jayarrbee Wasn't so sure, so was that the Alexander Stephen's yard that was there (or something to that effect)? Fairfields was definitely next door - my amazing and well educated Grandfather worked there from 1963 until 1979 when he retired, I even have photos of him driving some kind of Fairfields cargo train on the tram rails of Govan Road around 1964 - taken by a guy who lived in Huddersfield. I've actually found some online reference Alexander Stephen Opposite Merklands Quay on the south bank, this yard existed up until 1969 - another fine yard vanishing forever. Land is mostly derelict now. Harland & Wolff Directly opposite Yorkhill, it too closed around the time of A & J Inglis and the land was relatively quickly reclaimed for local authority housing. (That will be the site of the white, now re-clad houses of the GHA that sit across from what was the TSB Bank on Govan Road) I think thias is where I get the year 1963 from A & J Inglis Our first shipyard. This yard sat in between Yorkhill and the River Kelvin and was where WAVERLEY was built in 1947. The yard closed in 1963, just over 100 years since it began. The area is rather derelict now, but is being cleared as the site of Glasgow's new transport museum. As said earlier - I have copious amounts of material sitting in boxes at home and for some, it has been a few years since I last looked at anything, not that all material is now online, far from it. Good stuff to know all the same ;-)

And it's a pity that it's all gone,apart from the excellent museum situated at braehead there's nothing to celebrate the 200 years of clyde shipbuilding.And for goodness sake look what we have got in return, a underused ,and under financed ribbon of gold from coast to city centre, other countries have put their rivers to better use than Glasgow.

I haven't been in the museum at Braehead - It looks so small for a place of interest that should be showing off the 200 years of shipbuilding and maritime activity on the River Clyde. When I was seven years old - I was overwhelmed with the colossus that was The National Maritime Museum in Greewich - although for what I can remember, it was more of a building to show off the days of when "Britannia ruled the waves" with Horatio Nelson being one of its biggest features. Certainly East London and their docks etc had generated a wealth of opportunity during the 1800's with the import of various materials but I cannot recall seeing anything in respect to that part of London's history. Anyway, thats London. Here in Glasgow, they were too quick to dispose of everything from that era like it was an embarassment - the Engineering, Shipbuilding, the Transport and most of the Communities that housed the people who worked in such industries - today its almost a completely foreign city to the one from many years ago as if none of that ever existed. Maybe that is why we also don't have a huge museum like the one in Greenwich.

bawheed wrote:
Alexander Stephens was on the Govan RD facing the Southern General Hospital and The Gazelle Bar (The Guzzle). It was in opperation right up until 1978 as part of the then nationalised 'British Shipbuilding'. Although mostly producing units (bits of ship) for the Govan it was a different yard, with it's own management and union branch. I started in the yard in 1976 and after a year in the training school was one of a handfull of apprentices sent to 'Stevies'to work in 77, it closed the following year in 78. I was the youngest aprentice in my year, and as we were the last apprentice intake at the yard, I can lay claim to be the youngest shipbuilder to be able to say they worked in 'Stevies'.

The Missing City wrote:

bawheed wrote: Alexander Stephens was on the Govan RD facing the Southern General Hospital and The Gazelle Bar (The Guzzle). It was in opperation right up until 1978 as part of the then nationalised 'British Shipbuilding'. Although mostly producing units (bits of ship) for the Govan it was a different yard, with it's own management and union branch. I started in the yard in 1976 and after a year in the training school was one of a handfull of apprentices sent to 'Stevies'to work in 77, it closed the following year in 78. I was the youngest aprentice in my year, and as we were the last apprentice intake at the yard, I can lay claim to be the youngest shipbuilder to be able to say they worked in 'Stevies'.

Sometimes I don't think online material is all that accurate And as such, you have confirmed this so a Big Thank You. The info above in convo with Jayarrbee regarding yards around Govan I had taken from a website which focusses on activity on the Upper River and it also shows a good map of the major players who made us famous across the world. I also recall there being a shipyards as far down as Rutherglen from material I possess at home, so activity on the Clyde during the 1800's was massive it is fair to say. www.clydesite.co.uk/ articles/upperriver. asp

jrb wrote:

The Missing City wrote:

bawheed wrote: Alexander Stephens was on the Govan RD facing the Southern General Hospital and The Gazelle Bar (The Guzzle). It was in opperation right up until 1978 as part of the then nationalised 'British Shipbuilding'. Although mostly producing units (bits of ship) for the Govan it was a different yard, with it's own management and union branch. I started in the yard in 1976 and after a year in the training school was one of a handfull of apprentices sent to 'Stevies'to work in 77, it closed the following year in 78. I was the youngest aprentice in my year, and as we were the last apprentice intake at the yard, I can lay claim to be the youngest shipbuilder to be able to say they worked in 'Stevies'.

Sometimes I don't think online material is all that accurate And as such, you have confirmed this so a Big Thank You. The info above in convo with Jayarrbee regarding yards around Govan I had taken from a website which focusses on activity on the Upper River and it also shows a good map of the major players who made us famous across the world. I also recall there being a shipyards as far down as Rutherglen from material I possess at home, so activity on the Clyde during the 1800's was massive it is fair to say. www.clydesite.co.uk/ articles/upperriver. asp

IF you get the chance visit the museum mentioned earlier at Braehead.It has a great intamicy with former ship yard workers,many who worked or advised on its layout and content,also a full-scale map of all shipbuilding which took place on the clyde over the last 150 years, it may not be much but you get a sense of working life in the "yerds".....

Johnny Punchclock wrote:
I've just lookeed at this site on Google. It's the end of a short cul de sac in Linthouse, looking on to the shipyard carpark. These flats will cost £145000 each to build. That is completely ridiculous. It's a run down area, not near any good schools. I suppose it's relatively handy for the Southern General but it's not a safe place to walk after dark with all the alienated youth hanging about. Anyone thinking of buying one should pay no more than £50,000 tops.

jrb wrote:

Johnny Punchclock wrote: I've just lookeed at this site on Google. It's the end of a short cul de sac in Linthouse, looking on to the shipyard carpark. These flats will cost £145000 each to build. That is completely ridiculous. It's a run down area, not near any good schools. I suppose it's relatively handy for the Southern General but it's not a safe place to walk after dark with all the alienated youth hanging about. Anyone thinking of buying one should pay no more than £50,000 tops.

10 minutes to glasgow airport,5 mins to city centre,through the tunnel and your off to the highlands,is anywhere safe in glasgow??...