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by **Hervey** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:09 am

Brickwall - QE2 in foreground and QM2 in right background.

by **Hervey** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:22 am

Mac loved photo of the original QM2. Memories of boarding at Broomielaw and steaming down the Clyde with shipyards on either side and the cacophony of hundreds of riveters - joining steel plates.
In the 40's there were two steamers left the Broomielaw daily one at 10am and the other at 11am. The QM was one, anyone remember the name of the other?

by **Pgcc93** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:24 am

Thanks for posting the pics Hervey it's been on the news over here the past few days

The original QE2 is booked to return to the River Clyde at Greenock on Thursday 20th September 2007 so make a note in your diary folks :wink:

by **MacotheIsles** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:33 am

Hervey wrote:Mac loved photo of the original QM2. Memories of boarding at Broomielaw and steaming down the Clyde with shipyards on either side and the cacophony of hundreds of riveters - joining steel plates.
In the 40's there were two steamers left the Broomielaw daily one at 10am and the other at 11am. The QM was one, anyone remember the name of the other?

Was it the Jeannie Deans?

(Glad you liked the photo.)

by **Pgcc93** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:42 am

MacotheIsles wrote:Here's more nautical but nice ones. All from old slides that I've taken over the years...

The Queen Mary off the Kyles of Bute. August 1976

I went on primary school trip to Rothesay just a few months earlier in June 1976 on the QM which left from Anderston Quay.
It was a glorious summers morning and the sun shone all day from start to finish.

She's now berthed at Waterloo Bridge on the River Thames in London and is a sorry sight as a floating den of Iniquity :evil:

by **MacotheIsles** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:19 am

Pgcc93 wrote:
I went on primary school trip to Rothesay just a few months earlier in June 1976 on the QM which left from Anderston Quay.
It was a glorious summers morning and the sun shone all day from start to finish.

She's now berthed at Waterloo Bridge on the River Thames in London and is a sorry sight as a floating den of Iniquity

I've had many happy times sailing down the Clyde too. On a good day there's not much to beat it. But it always seems to end badly for old boats when they eventually hang up their propellers. Shame.

by **Lexi** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 5:05 am

by **Mark N** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:14 pm

I think I've finally worked out how to post links to photos to this board, so here's some pics of the Kelvin:

by **tobester** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:04 pm

Mark N wrote:I think I've finally worked out how to post links to photos to this board, so here's some pics of the Kelvin:

Same bridge different angle, different season

by **brickwall** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:09 pm

Hervey wrote:Brickwall - QE2 in foreground and QM2 in right background.

Thanks Hervey, as I said boats n' stuff is my thing.

by **My Kitten** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:30 am

by **Sydney Rosewater** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 2:26 pm

Where's that?

by **HollowHorn** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:00 pm

Thats the Anchor Mills in Paisley, now converted to luxury flats ::):

http://www.lettingweb.com/search/htmpg_ ... eas=63.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollowhorn/sets/568620/

by **crusty_bint** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:10 pm

nice MK! Handsome bastard of a building that is

by **potatojunkie** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:24 am

Well done for braving the smell of the river, too!

Went a wander with the polarising filter yesterday. Looks like Spring is springing.

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