A memorial to Robert Currie was erected in the park, paid for by public donations. The original bronze plaque was later stolen and it was replaced with the current stone memorial. The result of this accident was that an underpass was built (and which is still there to this day) to replace the level crossing to allow safe access to the park.
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The Currie Memorial in Dalmuir Park in Clydebank just to the west of Glasgow. When this Park was opened in 1906, it was accessed via an unmanned level crossing across an active railway line. On the 15th of May 1907, Charlie Friar, a two year old boy, walked into the path of an oncoming train on this crossing. In an act of extreme bravery, eighteen year old Robert Currie attempted to save him, but unfortunately both were killed.
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Premature Clydebank twins saved by revolutionary co-sleeping cot
Premature Clydebank twins saved by revolutionary co-sleeping... #tech #clydebank #cot #babies #fundraiserhttps://www.alojapan.com/1286378/its-just-great-japan-ambassador-tries-irn-bru-on-visit-to-whisky-distillery-2/ ‘It’s just great’: Japan ambassador tries Irn Bru on visit to whisky distillery #ambassador #Clydebank #FirstMinister #Glasgow #Japan #JapanNews #JapanTopics #news #Scotland #Suzuki #Twitter “We’ve been using our time to cement links and connections between Scotland and Japan, and particularly yesterday, to engage with Japanese business people who are investing in Scotland and who recognise Scotland as an attractive destination for investment…
The new Yoker-Renfrew Bridge across the Clyde. Officially opened yesterday, it won't actually come into use until midday today. I think I'm right in saying this is Scotland's first vehicular swing bridge across the Atlantic Ocean (well, a small arm of it at any rate!).
Carving of HMS Agamemnon on a Clydebank tenement. Built by William Beardmore and Company, it was the largest warship built on the Clyde when it was launched in 1906.
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@thisismyglasgow #Clydebank #Glasgow This used to be the shipyard’s fitting out basin, with the Titan Crane. When the QE2 was being built it dominated the town for ages as John Brown’s was next to the town centre. Then one day it was gone. The photo was taken from the new Clydebank Health and Care Centre when it opened in 2022.
It merged with other shipyards to become part of the Upper Clyde Shipyards in 1968, which went on to be liquidated in the early 1970s, leading to the famous Work-In led by local shop stewards including Jimmy Reid and Jimmy Airlie. The shipyard was sold off by the liquidators and was later used to build oil rigs. It finally closed for good in 2001. It's now home to the campus of West College Scotland.
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The remains of the slipway at the John Brown and Company shipyard in Clydebank. Founded in 1851, many world renowned ships were built here, including the RMS Lusitania, the HMS Hood, the RMS Queen Mary and the QE2, the last of the great Cunard liners to be launched in the Clyde (on this very slipway).
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@thisismyglasgow #Clydebank #Glasgow I remember steam trains in Clydebank around 1962. We lived in a tenement flat at 1a Roseberry Place. Steam trains passed along the railway line on top of the embankment on the opposite side of the street. Our flat was on the first floor and so the trains would pass at the same level, great fun for a five year old. These were very long goods trains, no passenger trains. There’s probably a similar steam locomotive in the Riverside transport museum in Glasgow.
The Caledonian Railway monogram below an arched window on the former Clydebank Riverside Station constructed for the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway in 1896. It was probably designed by J.J. Burnet and served trains running between Glasgow and Dumbarton.
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Earth Tremor Boxing Day 1979: For #throwbackthursday #Scotland #Glasgow #Clydebank 45 years ago on early Boxing Day, a powerful earth tremor shook the Glasgow area along with central and southern Scotland and north England. The TV premier of Cabaret had been on TV late Christmas Day. Hours later our steel-framed house in Clydebank shook once as if a giant had kicked it. I immediately thought earth tremor was too unlikely but of course that was exactly the cause. https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/abs/10.1144/sjg38020113
I find projects like this so exciting. Ever since I moved to Glasgow I’ve been wondering why there’s such a bad north-south connection and we’re finally seeing improvements (here between Partick-Govan and between Yoker/Clydebank-Renfrew as well) 🤩
Unfortunately lost the mini ferry between Partick and Govan though (and I wonder if the Yoker-Renfrew) ferry is gonna go as well.
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Wow, what a sight to behold, burning metal, shaped & crafted into incredible ships & structures by skilled men & women - all lost.
I’m proud to say I was a JBE worker, happy memories of great times & wonderful people.
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From April 1963, an aerial view of John Browns Yard, #Clydebank.
Train capacity to be boosted for record-breaking Glasgow Kiltwalk https://www.vibewire.com.au/?p=31069&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=train-capacity-to-be-boosted-for-record-breaking-glasgow-kiltwalk #Balloch #Clydebank #Glasgow
This station closed in 1964 and has since been converted into residential housing. The railway line now serves as the basis of a cycle path from Glasgow to Loch Lomond.
By the way, before anyone points it out, I know Dunbartonshire is now spelt with an n, but when the railway line was opened, the preferred spelling was with a m.
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I love it when I come across an interesting building quite by accident. At the weekend, it was the rather beautiful former Clydebank Riverside Station. Constructed for the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway in 1896, the trains it served were run by the Caledonian Railway, and it's their monogram which appears on the building.
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#worldbookday #clydebank #Scotland It’s world book day. Sixty years ago I went to the branch library in this old photo every Friday after school . It was Parkhall library next to the High Park in Clydebank. I think it’s been demolished.
Mission Impossible(?) Trying to find a way of on foot, reaching Clydebank by bus and from a bus station get into the north bit of #Clydebank shopping centre without using a bridge or aerial walkway. Damn you canal and train lines.
