View from ESE showing Kelvinhaugh 'Wee' ferry approaching Kelvinhaugh Wharf

Description View from ESE showing Kelvinhaugh 'Wee' ferry approaching Kelvinhaugh Wharf

Date 3/3/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 796174

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Kelvinhaugh Wharf, Kelvinhaugh Ferry, Glasgow This view from the east taken on 3 March 1971 shows a ferryboat operating the Kelvinhaugh passenger ferry service approaching the northern terminal, off Pointhouse Road. The vessel is double-ended and diesel-powered. Behind it are the cranes of the Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard in Govan. 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 CT137

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