Port Glasgow Rejects 'Most Dismal Town' Award, Leading to Positive New Recognition
The Carbuncle Award, notorious for naming the 'most dismal town in Scotland,' has been scrapped following criticism from Port Glasgow. The town's recent selection for the award triggered a strong backlash, led by social entrepreneur Kevin Green, who rejected the trophy. He criticized the award as 'p... [More info]
Allowing the wood to become saturated with saltwater, prevented it from rotting and warping once it were used to build a vessel. The ponds only fell out of use at the start of the 20th Century when the use of seasoned wood as a construction material for ships was replaced by iron and steel.
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The Finlaystone Timber Ponds to the west of Glasgow. Stretching from Langbank to Port Glasgow, these enclosures, formed by driving wooden stakes into the mud on the foreshore, date from the early to mid-18th Century and were used to store the timber needed to construct wooden vessels in the early days of commercial shipbuilding on the Clyde.
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The Shipbuilders by John McKenna in Coronation Park in Port Glasgow. Completed in March 2022, each statue is around 10 metres tall.
Replica of the paddle steamer "Comet" on display in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, seen before its removal. She was built in the town for Henry Bell in 1812, and went on operate Europe's first commercially viable passenger steamboat service. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/portglasgow/portglasgow/index.html
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Scotland has several "Newark Castles". This one can be found overlooking the River Clyde in Port Glasgow, immediately to the east of one of the river's few remaining active shipyards. Parts of it date back to around 1480. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/portglasgow/newarkcastle/index.html
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Dumbarton Rock on the Forth of Clyde, with Port Glasgow in the distance. Before work began in the late 18th Century to deepen the Clyde, ships had to unload their goods in Port Glasgow, and they would be transported the 20 miles into the city itself by horse-drawn carts.
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