Part of this sculpture marks the maiden voyage of the SS Chile, launched on Govan in 1863, between Glasgow and Valparaiso, a journey it made in 31 days and 15 hours. The SS Chile was built for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. Created in the 1840s, this was the first company to use steamships for commercial routes in the Pacific Ocean. By the 1870s, it had the largest merchant steamship fleet in the word, including the Govan-built SS Chile.
One of the seven Waymarker sculptures by Matt Baker installed on the Govan Riverside in 2012. This one, on Napier Drive, commemorates Govan's shipbuilding history, and particularly the marine engineering achievements of John Elder and his development of the compound engine which finally made steam engines more efficient than sails for ocean crossings.
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A thousand years ago, Doomsterhill is thought to have been meeting place for the parliament of the ancient kingdom of Strathclyde, and before that it may have started life as a massive neolithic or bronze age burial mound around 4,000 years ago.
Part of an artwork called Assembly in the Riverside Housing Estate in the Govan area of Glasgow. Created by Matt Baker in 2012, it marks three possibly locations for the lost Doomster Hill. A large prominent man-made hill, some 45 metres in diametre, it was levelled in the 1850s as part of the industrial development of Govan.
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I'm always looking for new spots to take sunset pictures in Glasgow where there's something interesting the foreground that isn't a crane, a bridge or a university. This is a new one I found yesterday evening, where the distinctive roofline of the former Govan Town Hall was silhouetted against a golden sky.
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Love this mural on Govan Road in Glasgow. Created by the street artist Smug and painted in 2022, it was inspired by Govan-born Peter Barr, who was also known as the daffodil King.
By the end of the 19th century it was part of the Govan Yard, before the basin was constructed around 1920. It's now part of a new riverside park, and it was during the creation of this park that the remains of the tramway was uncovered.
This basin was constructed in the early 1900s on what had been the site of the Govan East Iron Shipbuilding Yard. Also known as the New Yard, it was opened in 1842 by Robert Napier, and Son to build iron-hulled ships using iron from Parkhead Forge. This was one of the first Clyde shipyards dedicated specifically to constructing iron-hulled ships rather than wooden ones.
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The remains of what I think is an old tramway on the side of the basin to the south of the Govan Graving Docks in Glasgow (but it may be rails for one of the travelling cranes shown on the accompanying map from the 1940s).
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This evening's sunset looking down the Clyde from the new park in the former Govan Graving Docks in Glasgow.
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