#Clydebank

[wardrobeoftime]

The Crown + Costumes

Queen Elizabeth II's black coat in Season 05, Episode 01.

// requested by anonymous

[onceuponatimeinthe70s]

MOON -Age Daydreams.

The 1970’s was a fabulous time to be a teenager. The music, fashions and TV shows were all wonderful…..well apart from a few exceptions!  (More on that subject later!) One of my most vivid memories is when my older brother turned 15 in 1971. He could now attend the youth club disco held in the church hall across the road from where we lived. The sound of the Sunday Chart Show announcing…

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[alias71]

This is my memorial to my great uncle, LCpl. William Alexander Wyber M.M., 11th Battalion, Royal Scots (1897-1974). I hope this is of interest to those who want to know more about individual soldiers who fought in WWI and what life was like for veterans who suffered from mental health issues after the war.

[rmsqueenmaryonthisday]

Just a Number

Headline from the New York Times on July 19, 1931: CUNARDER’S NAME SOUGHT. Special Board Meeting to Find One for 73,000-Ton Ship.

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[ltwilliammowett]

Medicine Chest, "Duchess of Bedford, Canadian Pacific Line, Built by John Brown & Co., Clydebank, Scotland, 2 Funnels, 581' x 75', 3rd Class 510, 20,123 Tons, front panel with black, red and gilt painted label "Morphine", 19th century

[scotianostra]

Iain Crichton Smith was born on the 1st January 1928 in Glasgow.

It’s sometimes stated that Crichton Smith was born on Lewis but his first two years were spent in Glasgow, a fact he refers to in his writing. He went to school in Stornoway, attending the Nicholson Institute, then gained a place at Aberdeen University, where he took a degree in English. Having trained as a teacher, he worked at Clydebank High School and – from 1955 to 1977 – at Oban High School. In both Clydebank and Oban he lived with his mother, until her death in 1969.

His years in Lewis proved to have a lasting influence on his creative work, in particular the “Wee Free” Kirk strand that permeates much of island life, which he saw as dogmatic and authoritarian, even anti-art. In an early piece of work, ‘Poem of Lewis’, Smith tells us that ‘They have no place for the fine graces of poetry.’

Crichton Smith wrote a huge number of poems almost a thousand , short stories, novels and plays in English and Gaelic, twenty-seven collections of poems appeared during his life or posthumously, alongside fourteen novels and numerous critical articles.

He is generally more respected in Gaelic for his prose, in English for his poetry. However, his achievement in both genres, in both languages, is remarkable and distinctive, with various features and concerns carried across genre and language borders.

A number of his poems explore the subject of the Highland Clearances, and his best-known novel Consider the Lilies is an account of the eviction of an elderly woman during such times. Elderly women and alienated individuals are common themes in his work. Among his later story collections and novels there are The Last Summer, Survival Without Error, My Last Duchess, which records the breakdown of a marriage, Goodbye Mr Dixon . With his knowledge of both city life and island life his works can be easily switched between either, There are vivid depictions of school life on Lewis in Mr Trill in Hades, and Other Stories and interrelated stories set in different apartments in The Tenement

Smith’s last book is a tragedy. An Honourable Death in 1992 it tells the story of Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald, known as Fighting Mac, he was a boy from the Black Isle who rose through the ranks of the army and was renowned for his courage, admired and loved, yet whose reputation was ruined by accounts of his homosexuality and encounters with young men in Ceylon. The Major-General sadly shot himself in a Paris hotel, avoiding a court-martial.

Iain Crichton Smith died aged 70 at his home at Taynuilt, Argyll after a fight with cancer.

Lewis.

From the War Memorial

we see Lewis entirely.

For this place they died,

the new houses, the smell of seaweed,

the rivers,

an old woman walking about her croft,

the wind on the Atlantic,

a seagull lying dead on a bare headland,

the sea breaking whitely on the long sand,

flowers among the stones,

a minister on a Stornoway street

on a cold wet day.

For this place they died.

Prayers are exhausting

the old sick people.

The wind is beating against the headlands

with its lonely song,

the moor yellow with flowers,

the small elegant lochs

like blue rings, there they used to walk

when they were children.

The loom of the wind on the headlands

with its eternal whine.

Iain Crichton Smith

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Battlecruiser HMS Hood on the slipway at John Brown's Clydebank yard, just prior to her launch in August 1918

[onceuponatimeinthe70s]

Glazed And Confused

Mark Arbuckle: Glasgow, April 2024 I’m sure everybody remembers the first time they earned their own money and didn’t need to depend on their parents’ generosity ie pocket money…. In the early 70s, earning a few bob made saving up for the latest single (at 7/6d), new pair of Dr. Martens (at £4 10/-) or Arthur Black bespoke shirt (anywhere between £5-£8 depending on how many pleats, plackets,…

[ayeforscotland]

I've never heard you talk, but whenever you pop up in my feed I always imagine you sound like the comedian Kevin bridges.

So I just assume you are Kevin Bridges.

So hi Kevin, big fan.

Lmao I’m so sorry but I don’t sound like Kevin Bridges. Pretty sure he’s from Clydebank

[radykalny-feminizm]

A double rapist who changed gender while waiting to stand trial has been jailed for eight years.

Isla Bryson attacked two women in Clydebank and Glasgow in 2016 and 2019 while known as Adam Graham.

The judge said Bryson posed a high risk of reoffending and would be supervised for three years after release.

The case sparked a heated debate over whether Bryson should be housed in a male or a female prison after transitioning from a man to a woman.

Bryson, 31, was initially remanded to a women's jail after being found guilty, but was then moved to a men's facility.

[ginandoldlace]

The RMS Aquitania under tow as she leaves Clydebank following her completion.