View looking WNW from under shelter on Kelvinhaugh 'Wee' ferry

Description View looking WNW from under shelter on Kelvinhaugh 'Wee' ferry

Date 28/1/1967

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 796173

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Kelvinhaugh Wharf, Kelvinhaugh Ferry, Glasgow This view from the east-north-east taken on 28 January 1967 shows the deck of a ferryboat operating the Kelvinhaugh passenger ferry service. This view shows part of the mid-ships shelter, the 'buoyant apparatus' for life-saving in an emergency, and on the left part of one of the two steering compartments. The Kelvinhaugh Ferry was introduced in about 1900, and was the last of the 'wee ferries' to remain in service, closing in about 1976. The last three ferryboats were sold for further service, two on the Forth & Clyde Canal. One of these was run by the Forth & Clyde Canal Society as the 'Ferry Queen'. Because the expansion of Glasgow Harbour in the 19th century was largely linear, there was a demand for ferries which was met by the Clyde Navigation Trust. Passenger-only ferries were provided at intervals down as far as Meadowside. These were phased out in the 1960s and 1970s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CT136

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