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Glasgow Museum of Transport
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The Glasgow Museum of Transport in Glasgow, Scotland was established in 1964 and initially located at a former tram depot in Pollokshields. In 1987 the museum was relocated to the citys Kelvin Hall, the Museum of Transport was first established in 1964. Created in the wake of the closure of Glasgows tramway system in 1962, it was located at the former Coplawhill tram depot on Albert Drive in Pollokshields. The old building was converted into the Tramway arts centre. The museum was situated inside the Kelvin Hall opposite the Kelvingrove Art Gallery. The Kelvin Hall was built in 1927, originally as a centre, but was converted in 1987 to house the Museum of Transport. The Kelvin Hall site itself closed in April 2010, with the Museum moving to its home at the new Riverside Museum in 2011. All forms of transport were featured, from horse-drawn vehicles to fire engines, from motorcycles to caravans, even toy cars, the new museum opened on Tuesday 21 June 2011. Culture in Glasgow List of transport museums Scottish Tramway and Transport Society Summerlee, Museum of Scottish Industrial Life Official website Riverside Museum - new home for Museum of Transport
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The main entrance of the Museum of Transport at the Kelvin Hall
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Overview of the Main Hall at the Museum of Transport
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Model of the
RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 in the Clyde Room
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Accurate full-scale recreation of a pre-1977
Glasgow Subway station, featuring salvaged items from the former
Merkland Street subway station
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Glasgow Harbour
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Glasgow Harbour is an urban regeneration scheme at Partick in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. The former Garden Festival site is now home to the Glasgow Science Centre including Glasgow Tower, there has been further development at this site, with a new headquarters for BBC Scotland forming the cornerstone of a new media village. Phase 2 of the project will include more high-rise apartment towers, the area now includes the new Museum of Transport and there are plans for large-scale commercial developments at the site. In September 2006, the Clyde Arc road bridge opened to traffic, there is also a Car Club, with 2 vehicles provided by Glasgow Car Club. List of tallest buildings and structures in Glasgow Official website Glasgow Harbour Urban Renewal Project Glasgow Car Club at Glasgow Harbour
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Phases 1 and 2 of Glasgow Harbour in 2011
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The creation of Glasgow Harbour by Clydeport (formerly the Clyde Navigation Trust) required the demolition of their massive Meadowside Granary complex in 2002.
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Glasgow
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Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland, and third largest in the United Kingdom. Historically part of Lanarkshire, it is now one of the 32 council areas of Scotland and it is situated on the River Clyde in the countrys West Central Lowlands. Inhabitants of the city are referred to as Glaswegians, Glasgow grew from a small rural settlement on the River Clyde to become the largest seaport in Britain. From the 18th century the city grew as one of Great Britains main hubs of transatlantic trade with North America. Glasgow was the Second City of the British Empire for much of the Victorian era and Edwardian period, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries Glasgow grew in population, reaching a peak of 1,128,473 in 1939. The entire region surrounding the conurbation covers about 2.3 million people, at the 2011 census, Glasgow had a population density of 8, 790/sq mi, the highest of any Scottish city. Glasgow hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Games and is well known in the sporting world for the football rivalry of the Old Firm between Celtic and Rangers. Glasgow is also known for Glasgow patter, a dialect that is noted for being difficult to understand by those from outside the city. Glasgow is the form of the ancient Cumbric name Glas Cau. Possibly referring to the area of Molendinar Burn where Glasgow Cathedral now stands, the later Gaelic name Baile Glas Chu, town of the grey dog, is purely a folk-etymology. The present site of Glasgow has been settled since prehistoric times, it is for settlement, being the furthest downstream fording point of the River Clyde, the origins of Glasgow as an established city derive ultimately from its medieval position as Scotlands second largest bishopric. Glasgow increased in importance during the 10th and 11th centuries as the site of this bishopric, reorganised by King David I of Scotland and John, there had been an earlier religious site established by Saint Mungo in the 6th century. The bishopric became one of the largest and wealthiest in the Kingdom of Scotland, bringing wealth, sometime between 1189 and 1195 this status was supplemented by an annual fair, which survives as the Glasgow Fair. Glasgow grew over the following centuries, the first bridge over the River Clyde at Glasgow was recorded from around 1285, giving its name to the Briggait area of the city, forming the main North-South route over the river via Glasgow Cross. The founding of the University of Glasgow in 1451 and elevation of the bishopric to become the Archdiocese of Glasgow in 1492 increased the towns religious and educational status and landed wealth. Its early trade was in agriculture, brewing and fishing, with cured salmon and herring being exported to Europe, Glasgow was subsequently raised to the status of Royal Burgh in 1611. The citys Tobacco Lords created a water port at Port Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde. By the late 18th century more than half of the British tobacco trade was concentrated on Glasgows River Clyde, at the time, Glasgow held a commercial importance as the city participated in the trade of sugar, tobacco and later cotton
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Clockwise from top-left: View of
Glasgow Science Centre, Duke of Wellington statue outside
Gallery of Modern Art,
Royal Exchange Square, cityscape view from
The Lighthouse, Gilbert Scott Building of
University of Glasgow,
Finnieston Crane,
Glasgow City Chambers
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The
seal or signet of
Jocelin,
Bishop of Glasgow, founder of the burgh of Glasgow.
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Shipping on the Clyde,
Atkinson Grimshaw, 1881.
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Glasgow University in the 1890s
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European Museum of the Year Award
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The European Museum of the Year Award is the longest running and most prestigious museum award in Europe, presented each year by the European Museum Forum under the auspices of the Council of Europe. It was founded in 1977 by journalist, anti-museologist, broadcaster, museums in 47 European countries, all members of the Council of Europe, can take part in the competition if they are newly opened or have undergone modernization or expansion in the past two years. Aim of the European Museum of the Year Award is to excellence in the European museum scene and to encourage. EMYA is awarded to two kinds of museums, Established museums that have undergone modernization or expansion during the past two years, new museums opened to the public in the previous two years. Two more awards are presented by the European Museum Forum, the Kenneth Hudson Award. See European Museum Forum for more information, Kenneth Hudson Award Europa Nostra The Best in Heritage European Museum Forum Official Website
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Logo European Museum of the Year Award
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Zaha Hadid
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Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, DBE, RA was an Iraqi-born British architect. She was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize and she received the UKs most prestigious architectural award, the Stirling Prize, in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, she was made a Dame by Elizabeth II for services to architecture and she was described by the The Guardian of London as the Queen of the curve, who liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive identity. Her major works include the centre for the London 2012 Olympics, Michigan State Universitys Broad Art Museum in the US. Hadid was born on 31 October 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq and her father, Muhammad al-Hajj Husayn Hadid, was a wealthy industrialist from Mosul. He co-founded the left-liberal al-Ahali group in 1932, a significant political organisation in the 1930s and 1940s and he was the co-founder of the National Democratic Party in Iraq. Her mother, Wajiha al-Sabunji, was an artist from Mosul, in the 1960s Hadid attended boarding schools in England and Switzerland. Hadid studied mathematics at the American University of Beirut before moving, in 1972, there she studied with Rem Koolhaas, Elia Zenghelis and Bernard Tschumi. Her former professor, Koolhaas, described her at graduation as a planet in her own orbit, Zenghelis described her as the most outstanding pupil he ever taught. ‘We called her the inventor of the 89 degrees, nothing was ever at 90 degrees. All the buildings were exploding into tiny little pieces and he recalled that she was less interested in details, such as staircases. The way she drew a staircase you would smash your head against the ceiling, and the space was reducing and reducing and she couldn’t care about tiny details. Her mind was on the broader pictures – when it came to the joinery she knew we could fix that later. She was right. ’ Her fourth-year student project was a painting of a hotel in the form of a bridge, Hadid became a naturalised citizen of the United Kingdom. She earned her reputation with her lecturing and colorful and radical early designs and projects. Her ambitious but unbuilt projects included a plan for Peak in Hong Kong, and her reputation in this period rested largely upon her teaching and the imaginative and colorful paintings she made of her proposed buildings. In 1989 Fehlbaum had invited Frank Gehry, then little-known, to build a museum at the Vitra factory in Weil-am-Rhein. In 1993, he invited Hadid to design a small station for the factory
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Dame Zaha Hadid
DBE
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Bridge Pavilion in
Zaragoza, Spain
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Bergisel Ski Jump,
Innsbruck, Austria
Zaha Hadid
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BMW Central Building,
Leipzig, Germany
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Buro Happold
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Originally working mainly on projects in the Middle East, the firm now operates worldwide and in almost all areas of engineering for the built environment, with 23 offices around the world. Edmund, or Ted, Happold worked at Arup before founding BuroHappold, where he worked on such as the Sydney Opera House. Ted Happold died in 1996, but the claims to maintain his views on engineering. BuroHappold was founded on 1 May 1976, with its first office on Gay Street in Bath, United Kingdom. The firm started with eight partners, The Kings Office, Council of Ministers and Majlis Al Shura, Central Government Complex in Riyadh, in 1982 BuroHappold started to work with Future Tents Ltd on a variety of temporary and recreational structures. The firms combined their operations in 1992, but split again in 1997, in 1983, BuroHappold opened an office in Riyadh, and has since opened offices around the UK and internationally, By 1993, BuroHappold had 130 employees and eight partners. In 1998 this had grown to 300 employees and 12 partners, in 2006 the partnership stood at 25 with over 1400 employees and 14 offices. SMART also develops Buro Happolds in-house software Tensyl, a finite element analysis and patterning program for fabric structures. Also notable is its group COSA, which undertakes computational modelling and analysis, in 2007 BuroHappold became a limited liability partnership, and in 2008 appointed 18 new partners. The firm is a limited liability partnership with 52 partners, the Mannheim Multihalle was a timber gridshell of 50 by 50 mm lathes of hemlock of irregular form, depending on the elasticity of spring washers at the joints for its flexible form. It was one of the first major uses of structural gridshells, following the development of fabric structures expertise on the projects with Frei Otto, BuroHappold was instrumental in further developing the knowledge and technology of fabric structures. They also designed the, at the time, largest fabric canopy in Europe at the Ashford Designer Outlet in the UK, the expertise in wooden gridshell structures has resulted in the design of structures such as the Weald and Downland Museum and the Savill Building in Windsor Great Park. The firm has worked with Shigeru Ban on a number of other projects, another design in cardboard was the Westborough School cardboard classroom in Westcliff. One Angel Square in Manchester Arsenal F. C. C, United States, a curved steel grid roof clad in square glass overlapping panels. Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland, a four-tiered,50,000 seater national football, philippine Arena, in the Philippines is the largest indoor arena in the world in terms of seating capacity. It can hold up to 60,000 seats, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, a new museum in Dallas The Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center, a rail and bus transportation hub in Anaheim, California. The High Line Park in New York City, a park occupying a disused elevated railway line, Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof redevelopment, in Stuttgart, Germany, a project to realign the Deutsche Bahns rail lines so they can be joined to the intra-European network. The sub-terranean station will be roofed with a park, with organically shaped, reinforced concrete shells with petal-shaped sections terminating as skylights
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BuroHappold Engineering
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Millennium Dome
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View of the Great Court, British Museum, London.
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Ashford Designer Outlet in
Kent, United Kingdom
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Kelvin Hall
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The Kelvin Hall in Argyle Street Glasgow, Scotland, is one of the largest exhibition centres in Britain and now a mixed-use arts and sports venue that opened as an exhibition venue in 1927. It has also used as a concert hall, home to the Kelvin Hall International Sports Arena to 2014. The Hall is protected as a category B listed building, and is served by city bus services, and the National Library of Scotland. The Kelvin Hall, which is named after Lord Kelvin, stands on the banks of the River Kelvin opposite the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and it was designed to complement the municipal display of Kelvingrove Park, in particular the nearby Gallery and Museum. Fronted in red-sandstone with a palatial entrance piazza the immense steel-framed building dates from 1927, the new structure was designed by Robert James Walker, the leading architect of the Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art and Industry of 1911 held in Kelvingrove Park. The hall was taken over by the military authorities as a clothing store. The new Kelvin Hall covers 6 acres and was designed to house large-scale exhibitions and it was built for Glasgow Corporation in 1926-1927 and was designed by Thomas Somers Glasgows Master of Work and City Engineer, assisted by Thomas Gilchrist Gilmour. Thomas Somers also designed the new bridge over the Clyde at Oswald Street, known as the King George V Bridge, during the Second World War, it was converted into a factory for barrage and convoy balloons. At the 1955 Billy Graham Crusade, Graham preached daily for 6 weeks to an estimated aggregate congregation of 180,000, jim Watts famous world lightweight-title fight took place in April 1979 when he took over Roberto Durans title. He subsequently fought three times as world champion at the Kelvin Hall in 1979 and 1980. The earliest rock concert was possibly that of Jerry Lee Lewis in 1964 and he was supported by the Animals, who were booed off. Lewis also played at the venue on 23 April 1972, ella Fitzgerald and the Count Basie Orchestra also played at the Kelvin Hall. The late 1960s and the 1970s were the key years for concerts including the Kinks, as part of their 1974 British Tour, Tangerine Dream played a live concert on 20 November 1974. Mike Oldfield with the Scottish National Orchestra played Tubular Bells on 5 September 1975, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Proms took place there up to 1990, when the new Concert Hall opened in the city centre. The Glasgow Museum of Transport was located in the Kelvin Hall from 1987 to 2010 and it was relocated to the Riverside Museum building at Glasgow Harbour in June 2011. The international sports arena has hosted international events, boxing, badminton. The Scottish Rocks professional basketball team was based there for four years from the 2008-09 BBL season to the 2011-12 season, after which the team moved to the Commonwealth Arena
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Kelvin Hall
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St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art
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The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art is a museum of religion in Glasgow, Scotland. The museum, which opened in 1993, is located in Cathedral Square, the museum building emulates a medieval style to blend in with the nearby Provands Lordship House. The museum houses exhibits relating to all the major religions, including a Zen garden. It housed Salvador Dalí’s painting Christ of Saint John of the Cross from its opening in 1993 until the reopening of Kelvingrove Art Gallery, nearby are the Provand’s Lordship, Glasgow’s oldest house, the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and the Glasgow Necropolis. Museum website Glasgow Cathedral Precinct—History and original drawings of the Cathedral area
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Stained glass at the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art
St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art
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Art Galleries
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River Clyde
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The River Clyde is a river, that flows into the Firth of Clyde in Scotland. It is the eighth-longest river in the United Kingdom, and the second-longest in Scotland, flowing through the major city of Glasgow, it was an important river for shipbuilding and trade in the British Empire. In the early medieval Cumbric language it was known as Clud or Clut, the Clyde is formed by the confluence of two streams, the Daer Water and the Potrail Water. The Southern Upland Way crosses both streams before they meet at Watermeetings to form the River Clyde proper. At this point the Clyde is only 10 kilometres from Tweeds Well, the source of the River Tweed, and 13 kilometres from the Devils Beef Tub, the source of the River Annan. From there it meanders northeastward before turning to the west, its flood plain used for major roads in the area. On the banks of the Clyde, the industrialists David Dale and Robert Owen, built their mills, the mills harness the power of the Falls of Clyde, the most spectacular of which is Cora Linn. A hydroelectric power station generates electricity here, although the mills are now a museum. Between the towns of Motherwell and Hamilton the course of the river has altered to create an artificial loch within Strathclyde Park. Part of the course can still be seen, and lies between the island and the east shore of the loch. The river then flows through Blantyre and Bothwell, where the ruined Bothwell Castle stands on a defensible promontory, past Uddingston and into the southeast of Glasgow the river begins to widen, meandering a course through Rutherglen and Dalmarnock. From there, it flows past the shipbuilding heartlands, through Govan, Partick, Whiteinch, Scotstoun and Clydebank, all of which housed major shipyards, of which only two remain. The river flows out west of Glasgow, past Renfrew, opposite, on the south shore, the river continues past the last Lower Clyde shipyard at Port Glasgow to Greenock where it reaches the Tail of the Bank as the river merges into the Firth of Clyde. At the mouth of the River Clyde there has been a significant issue of oxygen depletion in the water column, the valley of the Clyde was the focus for the G-BASE project from the British Geological Survey in the summer of 2010. The success of the Clyde at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution was driven by the location of Glasgow, tobacco and cotton trade began the drive in the early 18th century. However, the shallow Clyde was not navigable for the largest ocean-going ships, in 1768 John Golborne advised the narrowing of the river and the increasing of the scour by the construction of rubble jetties and the dredging of sandbanks and shoals. A particular problem was the division of the river into two channels by the Dumbuck shoal near Dumbarton. After James Watts report on this in 1769, a jetty was constructed at Longhaugh Point to block off the southern channel and this being insufficient, a training wall called the Lang Dyke was built in 1773 on the Dumbuck shoal to stop water flowing over into the southern channel
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The River Clyde at
Glasgow 's Broomielaw
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Catchment of the River Clyde
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Tributaries of the River Clyde
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New Lanark Mill Hotel and Waterhouses by River Clyde
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River Kelvin
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The Kelvin rises on the moor south east of the village of Banton, east of Kilsyth. The rivers first important confluence is with the Chantyclear Burn which originates from the ridge of Dullatur and it then continues its westward flow being joined by the often depleted Shawend Burn to the west of Craigmarloch bridge. The next important tributary is the Garrel at a point south-east of Kilsyth south of Dumbreck Marsh, successive attempts at improving the quality of the water have been rewarded by the return of salmon. The river has always been home to trout and both species can be fished by obtaining the relevant permits. The Kelvin is bridged at several points throughout Glasgow, most notable is the Great Western Bridge on Great Western Road in the citys West End. Below this bridge is a station that bears the name Kelvinbridge. Other bridges include Partick Bridge on Dumbarton Road, the bridge at Queen Margaret Drive, Hapenny Bridge, the Kelvin Aqueduct carries the Forth and Clyde Canal over the river. It was Britains largest when it was opened, the river is used as an overflow for the canal. The famous physicist William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was named Baron Kelvin in honour of his achievements, Allander Water, Allander Burn List of places in East Dunbartonshire List of places in Scotland History of Banton, William Gracie,1995 pub. Friends of the River Kelvin River Kelvin based charity River Kelvin Angling Association River Kelvin Angling Association Kelvin Walkway - Glasgow West End Illustrated guide to riverside walk
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The Kelvin flowing through
Kelvingrove Park
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The Kelvin flowing under the Clydeside Expressway and into the
River Clyde
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Glenlee (ship)
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Glenlee is a steel-hulled three-masted barque, built in 1896 for Glasgow owners, trading as a cargo ship. From 1922 she was a training ship in the Spanish Navy. She is now a museum ship at the Riverside Museum on Pointhouse Quay, Glasgow and she has a hull length of 245.5 ft, beam of 37.5 ft and depth of 22.5 ft, the over-all length with the spike bowsprit is 282 ft. She has 1,613 GRT and 1,490 NRT, rigged only with double topgallant sails over double top sails, she was not equipped with royal sails to save costs concerning gear and seamen. As with many baldheaded sailing ships the square sails were a wider than the sails of a standard rigging to gain sail area for a better propulsion. On 13 December 1896, just ten days after she was launched fully rigged and seaworthy, her maiden voyage brought her in ballast to Liverpool and from there with a cargo to Portland. Islamount was renamed the Clarastella in 1919 when she changed hands to the Star of Italy Italian Shipping Company of Milan who registered her in Genoa, the new owner had her repaired and equipped with two auxiliary diesel engines. In 1922 the ship came into the hands of the Officers Military Navy School as Galatea to be used as a training ship. During this period the ship underwent a lot of changes to her hull, a flying bridge was installed on the poop deck, a flying jibboom was attached to the spike bowsprit, and many other changes such as the installation of accommodation facilities for 300 cadets. In April 1931 she became part of the Spanish Republican Navy, at the time of the coup of July 1936 she was at sea and reached Ferrol, a harbour that had been taken by the Nationalist faction. After more than 47 years of service as a sail and later on as a training ship she was first laid up in A Graña, Ferrol. In 1981 the underwater hull was re-plated at the drydock in Ferrol, later Galatea was completely de-rigged down to a hulk and was towed to Seville to be used as a floating museum, but left forgotten. Some sources even reported that the ship was sunk in the harbour by removing her bronze sea cock valve, in any case, the ship was in such poor condition that it was eventually decided to scrap her. In 1990 a British naval architect discovered the ship and in 1993 she was rescued from being scrapped, after making the hull seaworthy the ship was returned to Glasgow months later in tow from Seville. Except for the hull a new ship had to be rebuilt. All the changes made to the ship by the Spanish and previous owners had to be removed, such as all the cabins built for the trainees, Glenlee is now recognised as part of the National Historic Fleet. As a museum ship and tourist attraction, Glenlee offers educational programmes, events including exhibitions and is a venue for the West End Festival and volunteering opportunities. Since June 2011, the ship has been open at Glasgows new Riverside Museum. oktett. net The Tall Ship, Glenlee - Clyde Waterfront Heritage
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Glenlee as Galatea in 1922 at
Cartagena Harbour
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Glenlee docked at her new home outside the
Riverside Museum, Glasgow.
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Glenlee 's figurehead "Mary Doll".
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Glasgow City Council
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Glasgow City Council, the local government body of the city of Glasgow in Scotland, became one of the newly created single tier local authorities in 1996, under the Local Government etc. The early city was run by the old Glasgow Town Council, in 1895, the Town Council became The Corporation of the City of Glasgow. It retained this title until local government re-organisation in 1975, when it became City of Glasgow District Council, in 1996, following the dissolution of Strathclyde Regional Council and the transfer of its responsibilities to Glasgow District Council, the authority was renamed Glasgow City Council. The title Lord Provost of Glasgow, used now for the leader of the city council, has history dating from the 15th century. During World War I, the council was unique in the United Kingdom in appointing an official war artist, the city council established in 1996, took on the powers and responsibilities previously divided between councils of the Glasgow City district and the Strathclyde region. The council area borders onto East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire, the council is ceremonially headed by the Lord Provost of Glasgow, who is elected to convene the council and perform associated tasks as a general civic leader and Lord Lieutenant. The current incumbent is Sadie Docherty, the councils executive branch is headed by a Leader of the Council, who is the leader of the largest political grouping, currently the Labour Party. The council consists of 79 councillors elected for a term from 21 wards. These wards were introduced for the 2007 election and each three or four members by the single transferable vote system of election. This system was introduced by the Local Governance Act 2004, as a means of ensuring a reasonably proportionately representative outcome, the most recent full council election took place on Thursday 3 May 2012. No Scottish Socialist Party, Solidarity or independent councillors were returned, a multi-member ward system was introduced for the 2007 council election, Prior to the 2007 election, there were 79 councillors elected from 79 single-member wards by the plurality system of election. There were also three Liberal Democrat councillors, one Conservative councillor, one Scottish Socialist Party councillor, and one independent councillor
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Glasgow City Council Glesga Ceetie Cooncil Comhairle Baile Ghlaschu
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Heritage Lottery Fund
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The Heritage Lottery Fund was established in the United Kingdom under the National Lottery etc. The Fund opened for applications in 1994, although HLF is branded as though a body in its own right, it is administered by a pre-existing non-departmental public body – the Board of Trustees of the National Heritage Memorial Fund. The turnover of HLF is considerably larger than the work of the NHMF. Decisions about policies and large applications are made by the Trustees of the NHMF, there are also decision-making committees in the English regions, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Head office is in London, with offices in nine English regions and in Scotland, Wales. The Heritage Lottery Fund offers a range of different grant programmes from £3,000 to over £5 million
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This sign indicates a Heritage Lottery funded project
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Heritage Lottery Fund logo
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Charitable trust
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A charitable trust is an irrevocable trust established for charitable purposes and, in some jurisdictions, a more specific term than charitable organization. In the Islamic Republic of Iran religious charitable trusts, or Bonyads, make up a part of the countrys economy. Unlike some other Muslim-majority countries, the bonyads receive large and controversial subsidies from the Iranian government, in England and Wales, charitable trusts are a form of express trust dedicated to charitable goals. There are a variety of advantages to charitable trust status, including exception from most forms of tax, to be a valid charitable trust, the organisation must demonstrate both a charitable purpose and a public benefit. There is also a requirement that the trusts purposes benefit the public, such trusts will be invalid in several circumstances, charitable trusts are not allowed to be run for profit, nor can they have purposes that are not charitable. In addition, it is considered unacceptable for charitable trusts to campaign for political or legal change, charitable trusts, as with other trusts, are administered by trustees, but there is no relationship between the trustees and the beneficiaries. This results in two things, firstly, the trustees of a charitable trust are far freer to act than other trustees and secondly, beneficiaries cannot bring a court case against the trustees. Rather, the beneficiaries are represented by the Attorney General for England and Wales as a parens patriae, jurisdiction over charitable disputes is shared equally between the High Court of Justice and the Charity Commission. The Commission, the first port of call, is tasked with regulating and promoting charitable trusts, as well as providing advice, where there are flaws with a charity, the High Court can administer schemes directing the function of the charity. In the United States, many individuals use charitable trusts to leave all or a portion of their estate to charity when they die, charitable trusts may be set up inter vivos or as a part of a trust or will at death. There are two types of US charitable trusts. The first is a lead trust, wherein the charity is paid first, the second is a remainder trust, wherein the charity is paid last after termination of the trust, after other beneficiaries have received payments. Payments may be fixed amount, annuity trust, or a percentage of principal and these split interest trusts are defined in §664 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended and are normally tax-exempt. A section 664 trust makes its payments, either of an amount or a percentage of trust principal. At the end of the trust term, which may be based on either lives or a term of years, parents who have a child with a disability should ensure that the inheritance they leave for their child does not affect their childs eligibility for social assistance programs. A Henson trust can be useful to ensure this, charitable lead trusts make payments, either of a fixed amount or a percentage of trust principal, to charity during its term. At the end of the trust term, the remainder can either go back to the donor or to heirs named by the donor. The donor may sometimes claim a charitable tax deduction or a gift/estate tax deduction for making a lead trust gift
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Wills,
trusts and
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BAE Systems Surface Ships
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BAE Systems Maritime – Naval Ships is a wholly owned subsidiary company of BAE Systems plc, specialising in naval surface shipbuilding and combat systems integration. It was originally formed as a joint stock subsidiary on 1 July 2008, with the merger of BAE Systems Surface Fleet Solutions, BAE Systems subsequently acquired VT Groups share of the joint venture on 30 October 2009 and renamed the business BAE Systems Surface Ships Ltd. On 1 January 2011, BAE Systems Surface Ships was operationally integrated with BAE Systems Submarine Solutions to form BAE Systems Maritime, in return, in July 2007 the MoD guaranteed the new company a certain amount of work for 15 years, or to pay penalties instead. The Terms of Business Agreement finally signed in July 2009 promised a minimum level of ship build, explaining the rationale for the joint venture from VT Groups perspective, its CEO Paul Lester described shipbuilding as a lumpy business, dependent on large contracts placed at irregular intervals. Another issue was the competition between VT and BAE, We dont want to get into a dogfight with BAE over who would be the survivor, thats what youd be talking about at some stage. BAE and VT concluded the merger discussions in early 2008, however creation of BVT Surface Fleet was conditional on the signing of contracts for the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers. This was completed on 11 June 2008 and, following VT Group shareholder approval on 30 June, BAE Systems and VT Group owned 55% and 45% of the company respectively, however they had equal board representation and voting rights. In return, VT Group acquired BAE Systems 50% share in their joint venture company Flagship Training. BVT Surface Fleet subsumed another BAE/VT joint venture, Fleet Support Limited, the new 15-year Terms of Business Agreement with the Ministry of Defence did result in some controversy however. On 30 June 2009, a BVT memo was leaked which suggested two of the companys three shipyards could be closed following completion of Queen Elizabeth-class carrier construction. In response to the leak, BVT said the memo was worst-case scenario planning, however a MOD spokesman said had to look at the consequences of reduced demand for navy shipbuilding. No firm decisions will be taken until after the Scottish independence referendum in September 2014 as London has made it clear that it would not buy warships from a foreign shipyard. The preferred plan is to consolidate shipbuilding onto the Govan site, BAE Systems Surface Fleet Solutions owned two shipyards on the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotstoun and Govan, shipyards that have a corporate heritage extending back as far as 1834. VT Shipbuilding owned shipbuilding facilities completed in 2003 within HMNB Portsmouth, BAE Systems Surface Fleet Solutions also operated an additional project management centre at Filton in Bristol, situated close to key stakeholders at MoD Abbey Wood, which was transferred to BVT. At the time of BVTs creation, VT Group was expected to sell its minority share to BAE Systems through a put option. However on 28 January 2009 VT Group announced its intention to sell its share, VT Groups put option valued its share at a minimum of £380 million subject to conditions, however it received £346 million after various payments to BAE. In addition, VT Group agreed to pay £43 million compensation to BVT for cost overruns on contracts with Trinidad & Tobago, VT Groups net proceeds from the sale of its share in BVT to BAE Systems were therefore £303 million. BAE Systems Maritime is undertaking a majority of the workload for the two Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, the first of which was floated off in July 2014 and is now being fitted out
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Launch of a
Nakhoda Ragam class corvette from the covered berths at BAE's Scotstoun Shipyard in Glasgow.
BAE Systems Surface Ships
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BAE Systems Maritime – Naval Ships
BAE Systems Surface Ships
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Construction of
prefabricated module blocks of Type 45 destroyer, HMS Dauntless, at BAE's
Portsmouth Shipbuilding hall.
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The last of class
Type 45 Destroyer hull under final assembly, prior to launch, at the BAE Shipyard in Govan, Glasgow, 2010. The Govan Shipyard is the company's primary facility for steel fabrication.
16.
Weir Group
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The Weir Group plc is an engineering company headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE250 Index, the company operates in over 70 countries employing approximately 14,000 people focused on mining, oil and gas and power markets. The company was established in 1871 as a firm by two brothers, George and James Weir, founding G. & J. Weir Ltd. The Weir brothers produced numerous groundbreaking inventions in pumping equipment, primarily for the Clyde shipyards and these pumps became extremely well known for their use as boiler feedwater pumps, and for ships auxiliary equipment such as evaporators. Under W D Weir, the company turned to producing munitions, as well as shells, they manufactured aircraft including the Royal Aircraft Factory F. E.2 fighter and bomber. James George Weir a director of the formed the Cierva Autogiro Company. G & J Weir would be a supporter of the company during its existence. In 1943, they provided the finances for the construction of the W.9 and it was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1946. In December 1968 the Weir Group made an offer to buy the rival British pump manufacturer Worthington-Simpson, after some negotiation, Weirs acquired 50% of Worthington Simpson. A new joint-venture company named Worthington Weir was set up to international sales of the two parent companies. Worthington-Simpson was profitable, but did not cover the cost of debt, during the next decade Weir was forced to sell off many assets and undertook financial recorganization in 1981. After the financial reorganization, Derald Ruttenberg and Jacob Rothschild gained effective control of 40% of the company, hopkinsons was founded in 1843 in Huddersfield. Hopkinsons Limited was incorporated in 1966 and changed its name to Weir Valves & Controls UK Ltd. in September 2002, the Elland based company is a Weir Group subsidiary. In recent years, the company has undergone significant reorganisation both operationally and in terms of its geographic footprint, in May 2007, the Company sold its Glasgow-based business Weir Pumps to Jim McColls Clyde Blowers plc, with the pump company subsequently being renamed to Clyde Pumps Ltd. Recent acquisitions In December 2010, Weir pleaded guilty to breaching UN sanctions on Iraq between 2000 and 2002, judge Lord Carloway of The High Court in Edinburgh fined the company £3m along with a confiscation order of £13. 9m. Products include pumps, hydro cyclones, valves, de-watering equipment, the division is present in key mining markets, including South and North America, Australia and Africa. Weir Oil & Gas - designs and manufactures pumps and ancillary equipment for upstream and downstream oil. Upstream operations specialise in high-pressure well service pumps and related control equipment along with repairs, parts and service of pressure control
Weir Group
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Weir boiler feedwater pump
Weir Group
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GEHO pump assembly
17.
Rolls-Royce plc
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This article is about the Rolls-Royce aircraft engine and power systems business and its owner since 1987. For previous owners, see Rolls-Royce Limited, for the present day manufacturers of automobiles for BMW, see Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. Rolls-Royce is the world’s second-largest maker of engines and has major businesses in the marine propulsion. All of its shares are tradeable on the London Stock Exchange, Rolls-Royce was the worlds 16th-largest defence contractor in 2011 and 2012 when measured by defence revenues. It had an order book of £71.6 billion as of January 2014. Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE100 Index, as of June 2013, it had a market capitalisation of £22.22 billion, the 24th-largest of any company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange. Rolls-Royce grew from the business of F H Royce which was established in 1884 and ten years later began to manufacture dynamos. C S Rolls established a business with F H Royce in 1904 because Royce had developed a range of cars which Rolls wanted to sell. A corporate owner was incorporated in 1906 with the name Rolls-Royce Limited and its business and assets were bought by the government using a company created for the purpose named Rolls-Royce limited. This company remains in existence today and carries on Rolls-Royce business under the name Rolls-Royce plc, Rolls-Royce plc returned to the sharemarkets in 1987 under the government of Margaret Thatcher. In 2003 ownership of Rolls-Royce plc was passed to Rolls-Royce Group plc incorporated 21 March 2003 which issued its own new shares for payment to the previous shareholders. In 2011 in the same way Rolls-Royce Group plc passed ownership on 23 May 2011 to Rolls-Royce Holdings plc a wholly new company incorporated 10 February 2011, Rolls-Royce plc remains the principal trading company. Rolls-Royce Holdings plc, like its predecessor, is merely a holding company. The group included Clarke Chapman, Reyrolle and Parsons, the company was renamed Rolls-Royce Industrial Power Group. It was sold off piecemeal over the decade as the company re-focused on its core aero-engine operations following the recession of the early 1990s. On 21 November 1994, Rolls-Royce announced its intention to acquire the Allison Engine Company, the two companies had a technical association dating back to the Second World War. Rolls-Royce had previously tried to buy the company when General Motors sold it in 1993, owing to Allisons involvement in classified and export restricted technology, the 1994 acquisition was subject to investigation to determine the national security implications. On 27 March 1995, the US Department of Defense announced that the deal between Allison Engine Co. and Rolls-Royce does not endanger national security, in 2000, this restriction was replaced by a more flexible Special Security Arrangement
Rolls-Royce plc
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Restored
Rolls-Royce Merlin engine of an
Avro York
Rolls-Royce plc
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Company logo
Rolls-Royce plc
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A
Rolls-Royce Merlin is manufactured in a British factory in 1942
Rolls-Royce plc
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Rolls-Royce Trent 900 on the prototype
Airbus A380. This aircraft carries four engines.
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FirstGroup
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FirstGroup is a British transport group, registered and operating in the United Kingdom. The company also operates services in Ireland, Canada and the United States. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE250 Index, FirstGroup originated from the deregulation of bus services in the United Kingdom in 1986, whereby private companies purchased nationalised and municipal bus operators. In September 1986 the Somerset based services of the Bristol Omnibus Company that were rebranded in 1985 as Badgerline were purchased in a management buyout, as Badgerline Group, it expanded through acquisition purchasing other formerly nationalised bus companies in England and Wales. In January 1989 Grampian Regional Transport, the bus operator in Aberdeen owned by Grampian Regional Council, was privatised in a management buyout led by its general manager Moir Lockhead. As GRT Bus Group, it expanded through acquisition purchasing six former nationalised bus companies in England and Scotland, in April 1995 FirstBus was formed through the merger of the Badgerline and GRT Bus Groups, with fleets in England, Wales and Scotland. Aberdeen was selected as the headquarters, at the time of the merger, FirstBus had 5,600 buses,4,000 of which came from Badgerline. Badgerlines Trevor Smallwood became chairman of FirstBus, while GRT head Moir Lockhead became deputy chairman, FirstBus continued the policy of growth by acquisition acquiring former council owned operations and companies formerly owned by English, Welsh and Scottish nationalised operators. FirstBus went on to larger urban metropolitan operators by taking advantage of the privatisation of the PTE bus operations. FirstBus acquired GM Buses North in Manchester and Strathclyde Buses in Glasgow in 1996, Mainline in South Yorkshire and CentreWest in London in 1997, and Capital Citybus in London in 1998. The company was renamed FirstGroup in December 1997 after the company moved into railways in February 1996 with the privatisation of British Rail, through a 24. In March 1998 FirstGroup purchased the 75. 5% shares in Great Western Holdings it did not already own and rebranded the franchises First Great Western and First North Western. In September 1998 FirstGroup made its first overseas foray when New World First Bus commenced operating bus services in Hong Kong formerly operated by China Motor Bus, FirstGroup had a 26% shareholding in the joint venture. In May 2000 FirstGroup sold its shares to joint venture partner New World Development, in September 1999 FirstGroup purchased Ryder Public Transport Services, a provider of school bus transportation in the United States. In May 2000 FirstGroup began operating the London Tramlink concession under contract to Transport for London, in August 2003 FirstGroup purchased GB Railways which owned Anglia Railways and GB Railfreight and held 80% of the shares in Hull Trains. Having not been shortlisted for the Greater Anglia franchise, this gave FirstGroup another chance to bid, however it was unsuccessful and the franchise was awarded to National Express from April 2004 including the services operated by First Great Eastern. In November 2003 FirstGroup purchased a 90% shareholding in Irish coach operator Aircoach, in February 2004 FirstGroups joint venture with Keolis commenced operating the First TransPennine Express rail franchise, FirstGroup having a 55% shareholding. In April 2004 FirstGroup commenced operating the First Great Western Link franchise, in December 2004 the remainder of First North Western passed to Northern Rail, some services having already been transferred to Arriva Trains Wales and FirstTranspennine Express
FirstGroup
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FirstGroup operates bus, coach, rail & tram services in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada & Ireland
FirstGroup
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Wright Eclipse Gemini bodied
Volvo B9TL in September 2012
FirstGroup
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First Great Western High Speed Train at
Penzance in October 2009
FirstGroup
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Greyhound Prevost coach at
Toronto Coach Terminal in April 2009
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Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
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This includes responsibility for operating Glasgows Subway, the third oldest in the world, after the London and Budapest underground railways. In the 1980s it was replaced by the Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive, section 40 of the Local Government etc. The new national agency Transport Scotland was created at the same time, at this latest reorganisation SPT gained responsibility for planning for all regional transport though it lost a number of specific powers relating to rail franchising and concessionary fares. There will be no change in abbreviation or branding or in its operational functions. The bus deregulation by the Transport Act 1985 deregulated the bus industry, the main bus operator in Glasgow City is now First Glasgow. SPT owns Glasgows Buchanan Bus Station, the largest bus station in Scotland and they used a new livery which was a variation of the previous GCT colours of green, yellow and cream. The new livery had Verona green on the panels. A stylised GG logo was applied to the yellow side panels. At bus stops, pennents had GG branding along with Scottish Bus Group branding on bus stops that were used by the SBG. At the start of the 1980s GGPTE was replaced by SPTE, logos also changed, stylised Trans-Clyde lettering was displayed below the GG logo, which SPTE was also using on rail services and the Underground at the time. Gradually the GG logo was discontinued, and Trans-Clyde was used although a Volvo Citybus prototype was branded in the same livery with Strathclyde instead. Bus Stop pennents was replaced with Trans-Clyde branding, Bus stop pennents were given Strathclyde Transport branding by having a sticker placed on top of the old Trans-Clyde name. The name lasted until 1986 due to deregulation of the bus industry, The orange and black scheme was kept. New bus stop pennents were given with Strathclyde Transport branding but without Scottish Bus Group branding, the Regional Council logo was briefly retained, later on Strathclydes Buses was used alone. However some Leyland Atlanteans from the Nottingham & Newcastle fleets were bought to add to the new Olympians, the bus service was still in PTE control until 1993 when Strathclydes Buses became employee-owned. At that time SPTE acquired Buchanan Bus Station from Scottish Citylink which led to a refurbishment completed in 1995. Both Strathclydes Buses and GCT colour Schemes lasted until 1996 when First Glasgow took over Strathclydes Buses, a new segregated bus scheme is currently being planned between Glasgow city centre and Glasgow Harbour called Clyde Fastlink. Currently SPT bus stop pennents have SPT branding with the council area logo next to the SPT logo
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
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The orange and black colourscheme of the Strathclyde PTE is illustrated on a
Class 320 unit at
Coatbridge.
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
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A
Class 156 train in SPT livery at
Glasgow Central station
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
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The exterior of a
Glasgow Subway car repainted showing SPT's support for the successful
Glasgow bid of the
2014 Commonwealth Games
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
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Class 334 trains in SPT livery at
Gourock. These colours will soon [
when?] be replaced by a
Transport Scotland blue livery.
20.
Caledonian MacBrayne
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Since 2006 the companys official name has been CalMac Ferries Ltd although it still operates as Caledonian MacBrayne. In 2006 it also became a subsidiary of holding company David MacBrayne Ltd, MacBraynes, initially known as David Hutcheson & Co. began in 1851 as a private steamship operator when G. and J. Their main route went from Glasgow down the Firth of Clyde through the Crinan Canal to Oban and Fort William, David Hutcheson was married to Margaret Dawson who was born at her parents home Bonnytoun House in Linlithgow. She was the sister of Adam Dawson who owned the St. Magdalene Whisky Distillery in Linlithgow, in 2011 Glasgow historian Robert Pool added over 200 letters and documents to his collection relating to David Hutcheson and the Dawson family. With the retirement of the founders of David Hutcheson & Co in the 1870s, their partner David MacBrayne gained full ownership, and changed the companys name accordingly. It remained in the hands of the MacBrayne family until 1928 when, unable to carry on, it was acquired jointly by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and its ships featured red funnels with a black top. It extended its line to bypass the G & SW Princes Pier at Greenock and continue on to the village of Gourock. Their funnels were painted yellow with a black top, at the same time the North British Railway fleet became part of the London and North Eastern Railway. With nationalisation in 1948 the LMS and LNER fleets were amalgamated under British Railways with the name Clyde Shipping Services, in 1957 a reorganisation restored the CSP name, and in 1965 a red lion was added to each side of the black-topped yellow funnels. The headquarters remained at Gourock pierhead, at the end of December 1968 management of the CSP passed to the Scottish Transport Group, which gained control of MacBraynes the following June. The MacBrayne service from Gourock to Ardrishaig ended on 30 September 1969, funnels were now painted red with a black top, and a yellow circle at the side of the funnel featuring the red Caledonian lion. In 1974 a new car ferry service from Gourock to Dunoon was introduced with the ferries MV Jupiter, in 1990 the ferry business was spun off as a separate company, keeping the Caledonian MacBrayne brand, and shares were issued in the company. All shares were owned by the state, first in the person of the Secretary of State for Scotland, the ambitious programme ran into financial difficulties, and the service was again put out to tender. Caledonian MacBrayne won this tender, and formed a company called NorthLink Ferries Limited which began operating the Northern Isles ferry service on 6 July 2006. On 29 May 2012, NorthLink Ferries Ltd lost the contract for provision of the Northern Isles ferry services to Serco, to meet the requirements of European Union Community guidelines on state aid to maritime transport, the companys routes were put out to open tender. To enable competitive bidding on a basis, Caledonian MacBrayne was split into two separate companies on 1 October 2006. Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited retained ownership of CalMac vessels and infrastructure, including harbours and their bid for the main bundle, Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services, succeeded and on 1 October 2007 CalMac Ferries Ltd began operating these services on a six-year contract. The Gourock to Dunoon service was the subject of a separate tender, in an interim arrangement CalMac Ferries Ltd continued to provide a subsidised service on this route, until 29 June 2011, when Argyll Ferries took over the service
Caledonian MacBrayne
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The funnel of
MV Juno
Caledonian MacBrayne
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The Caledonian MacBrayne headquarters building at
Gourock pierhead and a visit from
MV Caledonian Isles and
MV Isle of Mull
Caledonian MacBrayne
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MV Jupiter leaving Dunoon
Caledonian MacBrayne
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MV Caledonian Isles at Gourock
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Arnold Clark
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Sir John Arnold Clark is a Scottish billionaire businessman. He is the chairman and chief executive of Arnold Clark Group, a chain of motor dealerships. In April 2015, the company celebrated its 60th year in business, John Arnold Clark was born in Glasgow. He joined the Royal Air Force aged 17, and rising through the ranks as he was educated, Clark later became a Corporal and a Motor Mechanics Instructor. After leaving the RAF in the early 1950s, Clark got a job in car rental and saved up his money until he was able to purchase a Morris Ten-Four for £70.00, and after restoring it, sold it for a profit. Clark started buying and selling cars, opening his first showroom in 1954 in Glasgows Park Road, after gaining his first retail franchise for Morris Motors in 1959, expansion continued with the purchase of existing sites and rivals in and around the Glasgow area. In December 2003, Clark was knighted, for services to the motor industry, Arnold Clark Automobiles is now Europe’s largest independently owned, family-run car dealership, with over 200 new and used car branches throughout the UK. The company sells over 250,000 cars per year, employs around 10,000 people, the Group currently has franchises for 24 motor manufacturers, some trading under the Harry Fairbairn subsidiary. The most recent acquisition was British automotive brand MG, in 2016, GTG Training was purchased by the Arnold Clark Group in December 2003, and the Glasgow branch was officially opened in the regenerated Clydeside area of Glasgow in September 2007. There are three GTG training centres, one in Edinburgh and a £10 m facility in Wolverhampton, which opened in 2013 and has a 250-seat conference room. Arnold Clark was a provider of vehicles, vehicle training, fleet storage. In 2016, Arnold Clark became the first company to win a Cash for Kids platinum award for their donations to the charity, the company now also sponsors the Kiltwalk, and provides support for several charities, events and sportspeople, including Davis Cup coach Leon Smith. In March 2016, a new 15,823 sq ft flagship head office was opened at Hillington near Glasgow, Hillington head office also houses Arnold Clark’s Marketing department, which was awarded In-House Marketing Team of the Year at The Drum Awards 2016. ArnoldClark. com Harry Fairbairn Racing yacht Drum
Arnold Clark
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Sir Arnold Clark at his original Park Road branch in Glasgow
Arnold Clark
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An early portrait of Sir Arnold Clark
22.
Scottish and Southern Energy
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SSE plc is a British energy company headquartered in Perth, Scotland, United Kingdom. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE100 Index, SSE operates in United Kingdom and Ireland. SSE is considered as one of the Big Six companies which dominate the market in the United Kingdom. The company has its origins in two public sector electricity supply authorities, the former Southern Electricity Board was created in 1948 to distribute electricity in Southern England. Because of its history and location, the Hydro-Electric Board was responsible for most of the UKs hydroelectric generating capacity, both authorities were privatised in 1990/91, initially retaining their pre-privatisation geographic and functional bases. The North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board became Scottish Hydro-Electric, whilst the Southern Electricity Board became Southern Electric, Scottish and Southern Energy was formed in 1998 following a merger between Scottish Hydro-Electric and Southern Electric. In 2000, Scottish and Southern Energy acquired the SWALEC energy supply business, SWALEC operate exclusively in Wales while SSE operates in Scotland and England. In 2004 the Company acquired the Ferrybridge and Fiddlers Ferry Power Stations for £250million, in 2008 it went on to buy Airtricity Holdings, an Irish wind farm business. In 2009 it agreed to purchase Uskmouth power station from Welsh Power Group Limited, in January 2010, Scottish and Southern Energy changed the core company branding from Scottish and Southern Energy to SSE. The company is the second largest supplier of electricity and natural gas in the United Kingdom, and it incorporates the brands Airtricity, SWALEC, Southern Electric, Scottish Hydro Electric and Atlantic Electric and Gas. It also owns Southern Electric Power Distribution, Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution, grid connections are more difficult in North Scotland which receives funding from the rest of the UK to reduce tariffs. SSE also has an equity interest of 50% in, and provides corporate and management services to Scotia Gas Networks, SSE had 3, 326MW of renewable capacity by the end of March 2014, including its share of joint ventures. The portfolio comprised,1, 150MW conventional hydro, 940MW onshore wind, 544MW onshore wind, 355MW offshore wind, 300MW pumped storage at Loch Mhòr, in March 2014, SSE withdrew investment in four major offshore wind farms. It plans to sell its stake in the Galloper wind farm and pull investment from the Islay, Dogger Bank, SSE blamed limited subsidies and high costs. Nearly 20,000 staff across the UK are guaranteed to receive the living wage rate of at least £7.85 an hour, SSE works closely with the Living Wage Foundation and was awarded the Living Wage Champion Award for Scotland in 2014. The SSE Hydro is a located in Glasgow, Scotland, on the site of the Scottish Exhibition. The arena officially opened on 30 September 2013 and has a capacity of 13,000 and it was designed by the London-based architects Foster + Partners. The SSE Hydro hosts international musical stars, global entertainment and sporting events, the company also sponsors Wembley Arena in London and the SSE Arena, part of the Odyssey Complex in Belfast
Scottish and Southern Energy
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A Scottish and Southern Energy van, 2011.
Scottish and Southern Energy
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SSE plc
23.
Diageo
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Diageo plc is a British multinational alcoholic beverages company, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom. It is the worlds largest producer of spirits and a producer of beer. Diageos brands include Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker, Baileys, and Guinness and it also owns 34% of Moët Hennessy, which owns brands including Moët & Chandon, Veuve Clicquot and Hennessy. It sells its products in over 180 countries and has offices in around 80 countries, Diageo has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE100 Index. It has a listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Diageo is a name that was created by the branding consultancy Wolff Olins in 1997. The name is composed of the Latin word dia, meaning day, and the Greek root geo, meaning world, Diageo was formed in 1997 from the merger of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan. The creation was driven by the executives Anthony Greener and Philip Yea at Guinness plus George Bull, Anthony Greener was the first executive chairman. Shares in Diageo began trading on the London Stock Exchange on 17 December 1997, Diageo owned Pillsbury until 2000 when it was sold to General Mills. In 2002, Diageo sold the Burger King fast food restaurant chain to a consortium led by US firm Texas Pacific for $1.5 billion, in February 2011 Diageo agreed to acquire the Turkish liquor company Mey Icki for US$2.1 billion. In May 2012, Diageo agreed to acquire Ypioca, the brand of premium cachaça in Brazil. This did not, however, involve retaining the original Johnnie Walker plant, in Kilmarnock, in November 2012 Diageo agreed to acquire a 53. 4% stake in the Indian spirits company United Spirits for £1.28 billion. In 2013 Diageo joined leading alcohol producers as part of a producers commitments to reducing harmful drinking, in November 2014 Diageo agreed to sell Bushmills Irish whiskey in exchange for $408 million and full ownership of tequila brand Don Julio. In October 2015, Diageo announced the sale of most of its business to Treasury Wine Estates. Other brands, such as Navarro Correas and Chalone Vineyard, were sold separately, in March 2016 the company sold Grand Marnier, a cognac and bitter orange-based liqueur, to Italian aperitif maker Campari Group. In February 2017, Diageo announced plans to open a Guinness brewery and tourist attraction Baltimore County, the brewery could potentially create 70 new jobs and host as many as 300,000 visitors per year. It also has a large distillery at Roseisle in Speyside. Furthermore, Diageo owns a 34% stake in the Moet Hennessy drinks division of French luxury goods company LVMH, Diageos head office is in Park Royal, London Borough of Brent, on a former Guinness brewery property
Diageo
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A pint of
Guinness
Diageo
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Diageo's Gimli Plant in
Gimli, Manitoba, Canada, the global supply plant for
Crown Royal
Diageo
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Caol Ila distillery on the Isle of Islay, Scotland
Diageo
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Sterling Vineyards in Napa Valley, California
24.
Bank of Scotland
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The Bank of Scotland plc is a commercial and clearing bank based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was one of the first banks in Europe to print its own banknotes, in June 2006, the HBOS Group Reorganisation Act 2006 was passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, allowing the banks structure to be simplified. As a result, The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland became Bank of Scotland plc on 17 September 2007, Bank of Scotland has been a subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group since 19 January 2009, when HBOS was acquired by Lloyds TSB. Although established soon after the Bank of England, the Bank of Scotland was a different institution. John Holland, an Englishman, was one of the banks founders and its first chief accountant was George Watson. The Bank of Scotland was suspected of Jacobite sympathies and its first rival, The Royal Bank of Scotland was formed by royal charter in 1727. This led to a period of competition between the two banks as they set to drive each other out of business. Although the Bank Wars ended in around 1751, competition arose from other sources. In response, the Bank of Scotland itself began to open branches throughout Scotland, the first branch in London opened in 1865. The Western Bank collapsed in 1857, and the Bank of Scotland stepped in with the other Scottish banks to ensure that all Western Banks notes were paid, in the 1950s, the Bank of Scotland was involved in several mergers and acquisitions with different banks. In 1955, the Bank merged with the Union Bank of Scotland, the Bank also expanded into consumer credit with the purchase of Chester based, North West Securities. In 1971, the Bank agreed to merge with the British Linen Bank, the merger saw Barclays Bank acquire a 35% stake in the Bank of Scotland, a stake it retained until the 1990s. The merchant banking division of the Bank of Scotland was relaunched as British Linen Bank, in 1959 Bank of Scotland became the first bank in the UK to install a computer to process accounts centrally. At 11 am on 25 January 1985 the Bank introduced HOBS and this followed a small-scale service operated jointly with the Nottingham Building Society for two years but developed by Bank of Scotland. The new HOBS service enabled customers to access their accounts directly on a television screen, the arrival of North Sea Oil to Scotland in the 1970s allowed the Bank of Scotland to expand into the energy sector. The Bank later used this expertise in finance to expand internationally. The first international office opened in Houston, Texas, followed by more in the United States, Moscow, in 1987, the Bank acquired Countrywide Bank of New Zealand. The Bank later expanded into the Australian market by acquiring the Perth-based Bank of Western Australia, a controversial period in the Banks history was the attempt in 1999 to enter the United States retail banking market via a joint venture with evangelist Pat Robertson
Bank of Scotland
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Bank of Scotland crest, Head Office, The Mound, Edinburgh
Bank of Scotland
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Golden statue of Fame on top of the main dome, Bank of Scotland Head Office, Edinburgh by
John Rhind
Bank of Scotland
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Headquarters at North Bank Street,
Edinburgh (the street being named in honour of the bank moving there in 1806).
Bank of Scotland
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The Tercentenary Series £50 note (1995)
25.
Optical Express
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Optical Express is a retail optical services brand and laser eye surgery specialist in the United Kingdom. The company also provides refractive treatments such as surgery and cataract surgery. Optical Express is a name of the Scottish company DCM Limited which operates as the Optical Express Group. In 2013 the company was described by the Competition Commission as the leader in refractive surgery. As a chain of retail opticians, offering a number of healthcare services and this closed on 4 June 2015. Laser eye surgery in the UK is dominated by three main companies Optical Express, Ultralase and Optimax, which account for approximately 56% of clinics in the UK, Ultralase was acquired by Russell Ambrose, CEO of Optimax, in 2013. Accounts filed at Companies House for the calendar year 2011 reported a loss of £1.5 million, in November 2012, Optical Express closed a subsidiary with 83 stores placed into administration and 40 store closures. In December 2012 Optical Express said it would open 40 new sites as laser consultation/treatment centres in 2013, landlords expressed dismay that this closure happened two days after quarterly rents were due. Optical Express said it was consolidating its retail portfolio to focus resources on its flagship locations, on 21 July 2013 Optical Express narrowly avoided being foreclosed by its lender Royal Bank of Scotland and Moulsdale averted administration by purchasing the banks loans. 1 October 2013, Accounts filed at Companies House show DCM recorded a loss of £15. 1m in the 12 months to 29 December 2012. Founder David Moulsdale unveiled the intention to appoint an administrator for DCM Optical Clinic, Accounts filed for 27 December 2014 show a total revenue of £134m and an operating profit of £13m. The company now focuses follow on optical and refractive treatments, the group was founded in 1991 by David Moulsdale with one Optical Express branch based in Leith, Edinburgh. The company grew steadily following its establishment, acquiring the 11 stores of Remocker Shapiro in 1995, and these were followed in 2001 by 34 stores from Co-op Eyecare, and 14 more Scottish stores from Specdeals in 2002. Optical Express entered the eye surgery market in 2002 when it acquired The Health Clinic which offered general ophthalmic procedures across slightly less than 20 locations in the UK. In 2004 it acquired the ophthalmic treatment assets of Boots Group plc from nine sites in the UK and it did not acquire Boots’ other optician assets. Optical Express acquired the dentistry and laser eye surgery services of Alliance Boots in 2005 and these assets were sold in 2013. In June 2010 Optical Express was criticised by Which. and BBC Watchdog, among the concerns raised by McDonnell was misleading advertising and he used the 17 complaints about Optical Express to the Advertising Standards Authority in 2011 as an example. In April 2014 a complaint by the company that rival Optimax had funded a protest website was dismissed by Nominet, in August 2014 Which. consumer magazine published a report on laser eye surgery which found Optical Express to be the worst provider
Optical Express
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Optical Express Group
Optical Express
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An Optical Express store.
26.
Lord Provost of Glasgow
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The Right Honourable Lord Provost of Glasgow is the convener of the Glasgow City Council. They are elected by the city councillors and serve not only as the chair of that body and they are equivalent in many ways to the institution of Mayor that exists in many other countries. The Lord Provost of the City of Glasgow, by virtue of office, is also and this is enshrined in the Local Government etc. The current Lord Provost, elected to the position in 2012, is Sadie Docherty, the Lord Provost of Glasgow has the use of an official limousine which is always black and always carries the registration plate G0. Past limousines are on display at the citys Transport Museum, the current limousine is a Volkswagen. The Mediaeval burgh of Glasgow was administered on behalf of the Bishops of Glasgow by officials known as Bailies or Provosts, the office of Provost as a single chief magistrate was not created until the early 1450s
Lord Provost of Glasgow
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Scotland
27.
George Square
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George Square is the principal civic square in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is named after King George III, built by Glasgow Corporation it is the continuing headquarters of Glasgow City Council. Joseph Swans panoramic engraving of 1829 shows the development of the square. The square boasts an important collection of statues and monuments, including dedicated to Robert Burns, James Watt, Sir Robert Peel. This grid iron masterplan across the lands of Meadowflats, and eventually as far west as Blythswood Hill, was largely the work of the notable contemporary architects David Hamilton, James Barry, James Craig, James Gillespie Graham among others. For the first few years however it was more than a muddy hollow, filled with dirty water. Between 1787 and the 1820s, the square was opened up and lined with Georgian townhouses at its east and west ends. 1842 saw the opening, at the north west corner of the square, of Queen Street Station as the Glasgow terminus of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. The 80 foot Doric column is by Alexander Handyside Ritchie, a sculptor of genius. Both were completed between 1834–37, some years before Scott was commemorated in Edinburgh, today the east side of the square is dominated by the ornate Glasgow City Chambers, designed by architect William Young, which was opened in 1888. On the South side are a number of buildings, including the former General Post Office, built in 1878 and redeveloped into offices in 2007, the citys main Tourist Information Centre is in the adjacent Royal Exchange Square. Westbourne Music perform regularly here in a series of Merchants Music, the building also houses the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, founded in 1783. The western side is also the location of the former Bank of Scotland building, which is now offices and it was conceived in 1921, and unveiled in 1924 by Field Marshall Earl Haig. An 80-foot-high column in the centre celebrates author Walter Scott, which was erected in 1837, the square has often been the scene of public meetings, political gatherings, protests, celebrations, ceremonies, parades and concerts. The meeting descended into violence between the protesters and the police, with the act being read. The citys radical reputation, and the raising of the red flag by some present, the government responded by deploying fully armed troops and tanks into the square and the citys streets. The Square is also used for events and pageants. Plans to remove the greenspace and lease the area for temporary businesses, in 2012 a campaign was started to restore the square to its previous state
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George Square and Glasgow City Chambers
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George Square after a storm
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An equestrian statue of
Queen Victoria stands in George Square during the 2009
Nyx festival of darkness
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George Square at Christmas
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L. S. Lowry
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Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA RA was an English artist. Many of his drawings and paintings depict Pendlebury, Lancashire, where he lived and worked for more than 40 years, Lowry is famous for painting scenes of life in the industrial districts of North West England in the mid-20th century. He developed a style of painting and is best known for his urban landscapes peopled with human figures often referred to as matchstick men. He painted mysterious unpopulated landscapes, brooding portraits and the unpublished marionette works, a large collection of Lowrys work is on permanent public display in The Lowry, a purpose-built art gallery on Salford Quays named in his honour. Lowry rejected five honours during his life, including a knighthood in 1968, on 26 June 2013 a major retrospective opened at the Tate Britain in London, his first at the Tate, and in 2014 his first solo exhibition outside the UK was held in Nanjing, China. Lowry was born on 1 November 1887 at 8 Barrett Street and it was a difficult birth, and his mother Elizabeth, who hoped for a girl, was uncomfortable even looking at him at first. Later she expressed envy of her sister Mary, who had three splendid daughters instead of one clumsy boy, Lowrys father Robert, who was of northern Irish descent, worked as a clerk for the Jacob Earnshaw and Son Property Company and was a withdrawn and introverted man. Lowry once described him as a fish and realised he had a life to live. After Lowrys birth, his mothers health was too poor for her to continue teaching and she is reported to have been talented and respected, with aspirations of becoming a concert pianist. She was an irritable, nervous woman brought up to high standards by her stern father. Like him, she was controlling and intolerant of failure and she used illness as a means of securing the attention and obedience of her mild and affectionate husband and she dominated her son in the same way. Lowry maintained, in interviews conducted later in his life, that he had an unhappy childhood, although his mother demonstrated no appreciation of her sons gifts as an artist, a number of books Lowry received as Christmas presents from his parents are inscribed to Our dearest Laurie. At school he made few friends and showed no academic aptitude and his father was affectionate towards him but was, by all accounts, a quiet man who was at his most comfortable fading into the background as an unobtrusive presence. Here the landscape comprised textile mills and factory chimneys rather than trees, Lowry later recalled, At first I detested it, and then, after years I got pretty interested in it, then obsessed by it. One day I missed a train from Pendlebury - I had ignored for seven years —, the huge black framework of rows of yellow-lit windows standing up against the sad, damp charged afternoon sky. I watched this scene — which Id looked at times without seeing — with rapture. After leaving school, Lowry began a career working for the Pall Mall Company and he would spend some time in his lunch hour at Buile Hill Park and in the evenings took private art lessons in antique and freehand drawing. In 1905, he secured a place at the Manchester School of Art, in 1915 he moved on to the Royal Technical Institute, Salford where his studies continued until 1925 There he developed an interest in industrial landscapes and began to establish his own style
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Lowry at work.
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Lowry's former home in
Pendlebury
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The Peel Building, where Lowry studied at the
The Royal Technical College, Salford. It overlooks
Peel Park, the subject of a number of his paintings. His pencil drawing "A View from the window of the Royal Technical College, Salford" (1924) was drawn from the balconied window on the upper floor.
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Entrance to the Lowry Centre on Salford Quays
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Willie Haughey
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William Haughey, Baron Haughey, OBE is a Scottish businessman, philanthropist and chairman of City Refrigeration Holdings. Haughey formerly served as a director for Celtic F. C. City Refrigeration Holdings Headquarters are based in Gorbals, Glasgow, Sir Willie founded City Refrigeration, a refrigeration equipment supplier with his wife Lady Susan in 1985. Haughey has given over £5 million to charity over the past 5 years, in January 2011 Haughey presented a cheque for £100,000 to UNICEF ambassador Sir Alex Ferguson to support the charity’s work with child flood victims in Pakistan. In 2010 alone, he made donations of £1.3 million. Willie Haughey has backed the Entrepreneurial Spark start-up accelerator, hosting the Glasgow hatchery in his City Refrigeration Headquarters, Haughey has been named in several newspaper reports in connection with the resignation of Steven Purcell. The 2010 edition of the Sunday Times Rich List estimated Sir Willies fortune at £150 million, Haughey was awarded an OBE in 2003 and was knighted in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to business and philanthropy. On 1 August 2013, it was announced he was going to be a Labour peer in the House of Lords, on 18 September 2013 he was created a life peer taking the title Baron Haughey, of Hutchesontown in the City of Glasgow. Knight Bachelor, Officer, Order of British Empire Hon DTech, Glasgow Caledonian University Willie Haughey Debretts People of Today
Willie Haughey
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South African Class 15F 4-8-2
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The South African Railways Class 15F 4-8-2 of 1938 was a steam locomotive. The Class 15F was the most numerous locomotive class in South African Railways service. Between 1938 and 1948,255 of these locomotives with a 4-8-2 Mountain type wheel arrangement entered service, the Class 15F 4-8-2 Mountain type steam locomotive was designed by W. A. J. Day, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the South African Railways from 1936 to 1939, based on the design of the Class 15E by his predecessor, A. G. Watson, and modified again by his successor, M. M. It was built in five batches by four locomotive manufacturers in Germany, the first 21 were built in Germany in 1938. Seven were delivered by Berliner Maschinenbau, numbered in the range from 2902 to 2908, another 44 were built by the North British Locomotive Company of Glasgow in 1938. They were delivered in 1939, numbered in the range from 2923 to 2966, in 1944, production started on thirty locomotives by Beyer, Peacock and Company, delivered later that same year and numbered in the range from 2967 to 2996. In 1945, sixty were built and delivered by NBL, numbered in the range from 2997 to 3056, the final batch of 100 Class 15Fs were built by NBL in 1946 and 1947 and delivered between 1946 and 1948, numbered in the range from 3057 to 3156. The Class 15F represented the stage in a long history of development spanning thirty years. The first Class 15 4-8-2 tender locomotive entered SAR service in 1914 and it sported a 40 square feet grate, a boiler pressure of 185 pounds per square inch, a maximum axle load of 16 long tons 10 hundredweight and 57 inches diameter coupled wheels. The Class 15F locomotive was similar to its predecessor Class 15E, but it was built with Walschaerts valve gear, as specified by Day and this and some other differences led to it being classified 15F. The locomotive was capable of traversing curves of 275 feet radius with 3⁄4 inch widening, the Class 15F was delivered with a Watson Standard no. 3B boiler and a Watson cab, during the 1930s, Days predecessor as CME, A. G. Watson, designed a standard boiler type as part of his standardisation policy. New locomotives which were acquired in the Watson era and later, such as the Class 15F, were built with such boilers, to fit within the loading gauge, the Watson Standard no. The maximum height of the locomotive was 12 feet 11 1⁄2 inches, the maximum width 10 feet, the cylinder barrels had cast iron liners. The leading and trailing wheels were fitted with roller bearings, the axle boxes and motion were similar to those of the Classes 15CA and 23 and were interchangeable in most cases. The pre-war Class 15Fs were manually stoked and were delivered without smoke deflectors, the original 21 Berliner- and Henschel-built engines remained hand-fired for the full duration of their working lives. On the pre-war NBL-built engines, on the hand, provision was made in the design to later convert them to mechanical stoking
South African Class 15F 4-8-2
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No. 2940 "Lynette" at speed on the Johannesburg-Magaliesburg line, 6 April 1992
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Final steam test at NBL, c. 1945
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South African Class 15F 4-8-2
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Steam locomotive
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A steam locomotive is a railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine. These locomotives are fueled by burning combustible material—usually coal, wood, the steam moves reciprocating pistons which are mechanically connected to the locomotives main wheels. Both fuel and water supplies are carried with the locomotive, either on the locomotive itself or in wagons pulled behind, the first steam locomotive, made by Richard Trevithick, first operated on 21 February 1804, three years after the road locomotive he made in 1801. The first practical steam locomotive was built in 1812-13 by John Blenkinsop, Steam locomotives were first developed in Great Britain during the early 19th century and used for railway transport until the middle of the 20th century. From the early 1900s they were superseded by electric and diesel locomotives, with full conversions to electric. The majority of locomotives were retired from regular service by the 1980s, though several continue to run on tourist. The earliest railways employed horses to draw carts along railway tracks, in 1784, William Murdoch, a Scottish inventor, built a small-scale prototype of a steam road locomotive. An early working model of a rail locomotive was designed and constructed by steamboat pioneer John Fitch in the US during 1794. His steam locomotive used interior bladed wheels guided by rails or tracks, the model still exists at the Ohio Historical Society Museum in Columbus. The authenticity and date of this locomotive is disputed by some experts, accompanied by Andrew Vivian, it ran with mixed success. The design incorporated a number of important innovations that included using high-pressure steam which reduced the weight of the engine, Trevithick visited the Newcastle area in 1804 and had a ready audience of colliery owners and engineers. The visit was so successful that the railways in north-east England became the leading centre for experimentation. Trevithick continued his own steam propulsion experiments through another trio of locomotives, Four years later, the successful twin-cylinder locomotive Salamanca by Matthew Murray for the edge railed rack and pinion Middleton Railway debuted in 1812. Another well known early locomotive was Puffing Billy built 1813–14 by engineer William Hedley and it was intended to work on the Wylam Colliery near Newcastle upon Tyne. This locomotive is the oldest preserved, and is on display in the Science Museum. George Stephenson built Locomotion No.1 for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, north-east England, in 1829, his son Robert built in Newcastle The Rocket which was entered in and won the Rainhill Trials. This success led to the company emerging as the pre-eminent builder of locomotives used on railways in the UK, US. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened a year later making exclusive use of power for passenger
Steam locomotive
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The
4-8-8-4 Union Pacific Big Boy was one of the largest steam locomotives ever built
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Stephenson 's Rocket 1829, the winner of the Rainhill Trials
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The
Austria, the first locomotive in Austria
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A steam locomotive with the boiler and firebox exposed (firebox on the left)
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North British Locomotive Company
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Its main factories were located at the neighbouring Atlas and Hyde Park Works in central Springburn, as well as the Queens Park Works in Polmadie. The two other Railway works in Springburn were St. Rollox railway works, owned by the Caledonian Railway and Cowlairs railway works, latterly both works were operated by British Rail Engineering Limited after rail nationalisation in 1948. In 1918 NBL produced the first prototype of the Anglo-American Mark VIII battlefield tank for the Allied armies, NBL built steam locomotives for countries all over the world. This included North America, South America, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, Asia, the New South Wales Government Railways purchased numerous North British locomotives, as did the Victorian Railways as late as 1951. The Western Australian Government Railways also purchased many North British Locomotives, between 1903 and 1959 NB supplied many locomotives of various classes to Egyptian State Railways. They included 40 of the 545 class 2-6-0 in 1928, between 1921 and 1925, NBL supplied New Zealand Government Railways with 85 NZR AB class locomotives. The whole fleet of AB class engines numbered 143, as built, in 1935 NB supplied six Palestine Railways P class 4-6-0 locomotives to haul main line trains between Haifa and the Suez Canal. In 1939 NB supplied 40 4-8-2 locomotives to the New Zealand Railways Department, in 1951 NB supplied another 16 JA class, though these did not have the American-style streamlining of the J class. Together with the NB predecessor firms, North British supplied about a quarter of the locomotives used by the NZR. In 1949 South African Railways bought more than 100 2-8-4 locomotives from NBL, additionally South Africa also purchased some of its Class 25, 4-8-4 engines from the company between 1953–55. These successful engines with various in-service modifications survived until the end of steam in South Africa in 1992, NB also introduced the Modified Fairlie locomotive in 1924. In total South Africa purchased over 2,000 locomotives from the North British Locomotive Company. As of January 2010, Umgeni Steam Railway operates SAR Class 3BR engine 1486 and she hauls vintage sightseeing trains some coaches of which date back to 1908. In 1953, RENFE in Spain acquired 25 2-8-2 locomotives from the North British Locomotive Company, one example, 141F2111 is preserved in working order. After 1923, customers included the Great Western Railway, London, Midland and Scottish Railway, London and North Eastern Railway, Northern Counties Committee, Southern Railway, War Department. In 1922 the New Zealand Railways Department ordered a batch of its very successful AB class Pacifics from NBL, to be built, the trio 22878,22879 and 22880 were built amidst this batch. 22878 and 22879 were loaded aboard SS Wiltshire and she sailed for Auckland, New Zealand, remnants of both locomotives, and the Wiltshire can be seen on the sea floor. 22880 was dispatched on a subsequent sailing and was put into service in New Zealand as AB class number 745 and this locomotive was in service for more than 30 years but then hit a washout near Hawera
North British Locomotive Company
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North British Locomotive Company Limited
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Mainline Steam New Zealand locomotive,
NZR J class No. 1211. (NBL 24534 of 1939)
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NBL
works plate on
LNER B1 No. 1264 (NBL 26165 of 1947). The diamond shaped plate was fitted to locomotives built at the company's Queen's Park Works in Polmadie, a continuation of a tradition started by
Dübs and Company.
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Former headquarters of NBL in
Springburn, Glasgow. During the First World War the building was temporarily converted into a hospital by the
British Red Cross. It was latterly the campus of
North Glasgow College.
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Polmadie
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Polmadie /ˌpɒlməˈdiː/ is a district of Glasgow, the most populous city in Scotland. Polmadie is situated south of the River Clyde, and adjacent to the Gorbals, the most prominent landmark within Polmadie is the twin chimneys of a now disused waste incinerator plant operated by Glasgow City Council. The area is served directly by the M74 motorway, following its extension into the city centre opened in June 2011. Polmadie is home to Alstoms Polmadie Depot on the West Coast Main Line, the Glasgow firm of Alley & McLellan was a significant producer of smaller commercial vessels as well as the worlds leading manufacturer of steam lorries. However, the company specialised in supporting the far reaches of the British Empire by constructing vessels that were dismantled into kit form once they had been completed. The resulting set of parts was frequently enormous and a nightmare to transport. However, as in the case of the SS Chauncy Maples, Polmadie is the home of Glasgows only materials recovery facility. The MRF is based in the building of an old incinerator, Polmadie is derived from the Scottish Gaelic Poll Mac Dè. The bulk of the place-names of the neighbourhoods of Glasgow were either coined by Gaelic-speakers or adapted to Gaelic from Cumbric, Polmadie is an early Gaelic name, containing the Gaelic poll, but which usually means burn or stream in areas where Gaelic replaced Cumbric. From a late 12th century form, Polmacde, it is clear that the element is Gaelic mac. The third element could be either the personal name Daigh, or the Gaelic Dè, a remarkable feature of this place-name is how the original stress-pattern has survived, even centuries after its meaning ceased to be understood by those using it locally. It is still pronounced pawmaDEE, exactly as it would have stressed in Gaelic. According to the minister of Govan, writing in New Statistical Account of Scotland in 1835 and it was in existence before 1249 during the reign of King Alexander III, for a charter still exists in which he confirms the Hospital’s privileges. On 24 May 1371 King Robert the Bruce issued a confirmation of privileges at nearby Rutherglen. The first Master of the Hospital of St John at Polmadie we know of was Patrick Floker, the hospital was financed mostly by income from the lands of the Parish of Strathblane but also by the pious grants of lands and revenues by local landowners and merchants. For example, in 1329, Bishop John of Glasgow gave half the lands of Little Govan to the hospital. There was a catch, though, for at least some of the revenues were dedicated to supporting one of the canons of the Chapter of the Cathedral - who was a Mr John de Berwick. Another act of piety, by the superior of the lands was to free it of its obligations to them - taxes
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Polmadie train depot. The
West Coast Main Line tracks are on the right, with a
Class 318 train running on the fast line to the right. A Virgin "Voyager" train is entering the stabling area to the left, the slow line. This photograph predates the construction of the M74 Extension, which runs to the immediate north of the facility
Polmadie
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The
SS Chauncy Maples at anchor on Lake Nyasa, four years after her launch
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Transnet
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Transnet SOC Ltd is a large South African rail, port and pipeline company, headquartered in the Carlton Centre in Johannesburg. It was formed as a company on 1 April 1990. A majority of the stock is owned by the Department of Public Enterprises, or DPE. The company was formed by restructuring into business units the operations of South African Railways and Harbours and other existing operations and products. Transnet port terminals was established in 2000, when Transnets then single port division, Portnet, was divided into operations and landlord businesses namely, SAPO, since its setting up, Transnet port terminals has played a part in supporting the South African governments export-led growth strategy. Most Southern African import and export commodities are handled through South Africas six largest ports, Richards Bay, Durban, Saldanha, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, in October 2009 the new deepwater Port of Ngqura was commissioned just 7 km outside of Port Elizabeth. Port Terminals not only handle these cargo but implement logistics management solutions for its container, bulk, break-bulk, Transnet Freight Rail formerly known as Spoornet, is the biggest division of Transnet. It is an outstanding heavy haul freight rail company that specializes in the transportation of freight and it is the biggest outside United States and excluding India that is not a company but a Government Department. Railways were first developed in the area surrounding Cape Town and later in Durban around the 1840s, the first line opened in Durban on 27 June 1850. The initial network was created to serve the production area between Cape Town and Wellington. The news that there were gold deposits in the Transvaal Republic moved the Cape Colony Government to link Kimberley as soon as possible by rail to Cape Town as part of the colonial dream, thus was born the South African Railways and Harbours. On 31 May 1961 the Union became the Republic of South Africa, by 1981 government decided that the SAR&H should restructure itself along business lines in order to evolve from a state-owned corporation towards privatization. Later, when commercial aviation started, the South African Airways also became a part of huge land, sea. Integral to the process was a change in the name and image of the organization, in April 1981, the countrys railway, harbour, road transport, aviation and pipeline operations became known as South African Transport Services. At the same time, the enterprise was restructured into units, the Legal Succession to the South African Transport Services Act,1989 transformed the South African Transport Services from a government department into a public company. On 1 April 1990, after 80 years of government and parliamentary control, on 17 March 2014, Transnets CEO, Brian Molefe, announced contracts of R50 billion with four international manufacturing companies to build 1,064 Locomotives. GE will supply 233 Diesel locomotives, CNR232 Diesel locomotives, Bombardier Transportation will supply 240 Electric locomotives, of the total of 1064 locomotives,70 will be imported complete and the rest will be built locally by Transnet Engineering in Pretoria and Durban. A new company representing a vast transportation network was born, Transnet Limited is a public company of which the South African Government is the sole shareholder
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Transnet SOC Ltd.
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Culture in Glasgow
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In 2009 Glasgow was awarded the title UNESCO Creative City of Music in recognition of its vibrant live music scene and its distinguished heritage. Glasgow has three universities, each involved in creative and literary arts, and the city has the largest public reference library in Europe in the form of the Mitchell Library. Scotlands largest newspapers and national television and radio companies are based in the city, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum houses renowned art work and paintings including many old masters, Dutch, Italian, French Impressionists, etc. and the Scottish Colourists, and Glasgow Boys. The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, of the University of Glasgow, has what is considered to be the best collection of Whistler paintings in the world. The Burrell Collection of international art and antiquities donated to the city by Sir William Burrell is housed in a museum in the Pollok Country Park. The Peoples Palace museum in Glasgow Green reflects the history of the city and its people, the Riverside Museum on the Clyde focuses on shipping, transport and city life. Glasgow School of Art designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh continues its pre-eminence in art, design and architecture, the Gallery of Modern Art is on Royal Exchange Square, just off George Square. The National Piping Centre is a teaching centre. The city also has a longstanding and lively music scene based around venues such as the SECC. Glasgow is the first city in Britain to be awarded the UNESCO City of Music accolade, Glasgow also has major cinema complexes in the city centre and at locations on the Clyde and at out of town shopping centres. Glasgow City Council manages a number of these. - August World Pipe Band Championships - August Merchant City Festival - September Glasgay, the city was host to the three Great Exhibitions at Kelvingrove Park, in 1888,1901 and 1911. It later hosted the Empire Exhibition in 1938 and the Industrial exhibits of the Festival of Britain at the Kelvin Hall in 1951, the city hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Glasgow was awarded the title UNESCO City of Music in recognition of its music scene. Glasgow has many live music pubs, clubs and venues, more recent mid-sized venues include ABC, Stereo, The Old Hairdressers and the Carling Academy, which play host to a similar range of acts. Numerous small venues, cafes and bars play host to the smaller local. Glasgow is also home to an electronic music scene, with a particularly strong reputation for techno. The city also boasts a flourishing music scene, and plays home to such luminaries as Alex Neilson
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Spanish Workers Dying for Democracy banner exhibited in the People's Palace.
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Scottish Tramway and Transport Society
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The Scottish Tramway and Transport Society was founded on 27 June 1951. Until 1983 it was known as the Scottish Tramway Museum Society, the Society was originally formed by tramway enthusiasts, mainly living in the Glasgow area, with a view to preserve a Glasgow Room and Kitchen type single deck tramcar. The Society was less successful in attempting to preserve an Aberdeen tram, tram 73 was Aberdeens last double deck tram with an open upstairs balcony, it was stored for two years until lack of resources led to its scrapping in 1956. The closure of Scotlands last tramway led to the Society preserving several tramcars, including some in working order at the National Tramway Museum at Crich, near Matlock, in the 1980s the Society started campaigning for the introduction of modern tram systems in Scotland. Since 2008 work on building a new line in Edinburgh has been underway and, following extensive delays and contractual disputes. The completion of project is the fulfillment of one of the Societys major ambitions
Scottish Tramway and Transport Society
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Glasgow tram in the
Riverside Museum
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Glasgow Corporation Tramways
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Glasgow Corporation Tramways were formerly one of the largest urban tramway systems in Europe. Over 1000 municipally-owned trams served the city of Glasgow, Scotland with over 100 route miles by 1922, the system closed in 1962 and was the last city tramway in Great Britain. The Glasgow Street Tramways Act was enacted by Parliament in 1870 and this legislation allowed Glasgow Town Council to decide whether or not to have tramways within Glasgow. In 1872, the Town Council laid a 2 1⁄2-mile route from St Georges Cross to Eglinton Toll, the Tramways Act prohibited the Town Council from directly operating a tram service over the lines. The act further stipulated that a company be given the operating lease of the tram-lines for a period of 22 years. The St Georges Cross to Eglinton Toll tram line was opened on 19 August 1872 with a service by the Glasgow Tramway. The Glasgow Tramway and Omnibus Company operated the tram-line and subsequent extensions to the system until 30 June 1894, Glasgows tramlines had a highly unusual track gauge of 4 ft 7 3⁄4 in. This was to permit 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in standard gauge wagons to be operated over parts of the tram system using their wheel flanges running in the slots of the tram tracks. This allowed the railway wagons to be drawn along tramway streets to access some shipyards, the shipyards provided their own small electric locomotives, running on the tramway power, to pull these wagons, principally loaded with steel for shipbuilding, from local railway freight yards. The electrification of the system was instigated by the Glasgow Tramways Committee. With a fleet of 21 newly built tramcars, the electric route commenced on 13 October 1898 and was considered a success. The citywide horse-drawn tram service was withdrawn at the end of April 1902, following the closure of the tram system, the workshops were converted into the Glasgow Museum of Transport in 1964. Following the Museums relocation to the Kelvin Hall in 1987, the buildings were adapted to become the Tramway Theatre. In 2007, plans began to relocate Scottish Ballet to its new location alongside the Tramway Theatre and this entailed knocking down or renovating the five most eastern bays of the Tramway Theatre building and it officially opened on 17 September 2009. To provide the electrical supply, a station was built at Port Dundas. The Pinkston Power Station opened in 1901, the Pinkston Power Station and substations located at Coplawhill, Dalhousie, Kinning Park, Whitevale and Partick also powered the Glasgow Subway. The power station operated for 57 years, until it was handed over to the South of Scotland Electricity Board in 1958, the plant and its massive cooling tower, which dominated the skyline of the city – was demolished in 1977. Following electrification, Glasgow trams were fitted with trolley poles to take electricity from the overhead wires
Glasgow Corporation Tramways
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A "Coronation" tram in
Trongate, in June 1962, three months before the final closure of the system
Glasgow Corporation Tramways
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Glasgow trams in 1962, shortly before final withdrawal of services (Cunarder on the left, Coronation in middle row)
Glasgow Corporation Tramways
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Glasgow Standard tram with top cover
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Last British-built double-decker No.1392
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Titan Clydebank
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Titan Clydebank is a 150-foot-high cantilever crane at Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It was designed to be used in the lifting of heavy equipment, such as engines and boilers, during the fitting-out of battleships and it was also the worlds first electrically powered cantilever crane, and the largest crane of its type at the time of its completion. Situated at the end of a U-shaped fitting out basin, the crane was used to some of the largest ships of the 20th century, including the Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth. The Category A Listed historical structure was refurbished in 2007 as a tourist attraction, the shipyard at Clydebank was created in 1871 after the company James & George Thomson moved from the Graving Docks in Govan. John Brown & Company purchased the yard in 1899, and in 1905, Titan was completed two years later in 1907. It was constructed by the Scottish engineer Adam Hunter, who was working as Chief Engineer for Arrol & Co. having served his apprenticeship on the construction of the Forth Bridge. Stothert & Pitt of Bath, England, fabricated and installed most of the machinery for the Titan, including electric motors built by Lancashire Dynamo, the dock was used for fitting out vessels, and the crane would lift engines and boilers into ships. The lifting capacity of the Titan, and the location of the yard at the confluence of the River Clyde and River Cart, when tested on 24 April 1907, Titan was the largest cantilever crane ever built with a capacity of 160 tonnes at a radius of 85 feet. On the nights of the 13 and 14 of March 1941,528 civilians were killed, over 617 people were seriously injured, and 48,000 civilians lost their homes. Only seven properties in Clydebank were undamaged, in one of the worst bombing raids in Britain, the raids, involving 260 Luftwaffe bombers on the first night and 200 on the second, targeted the industry of Clydeside, but the Titan crane was undamaged. In 1968, the yard was amalgamated into Upper Clyde Shipbuilders along with four others, the general elections in 1970 saw a change of government, and funding for the yard was withheld, resulting in the closure of John Browns. It was bought from the receivers by the Houston, Texas-based Marathon Manufacturing Company for oil rig construction, in 1980 Marathon sold the yard to the French company Union Industrielle et d’Entreprise. UIEs owners, Bouygues Offshore closed the yard in 2001 and the site was earmarked for redevelopment, ships constructed by the crane include HMS Hood, the Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth 2, and the Royal Yacht Britannia. The crane fell into disuse in 1980s, and in the period of neglect. In 1988 the crane was recognised as a Category A Listed historical structure, the urban regeneration company Clydebank Re-Built started a £3. 75m restoration project in 2005, and the crane opened to the public in August 2007. The structure was shot-blasted to remove old paint and rust, allowing repairs to be undertaken before repainting. A lift for visitors to ascend to the jib and an emergency evacuation stair were installed, along with a wire mesh around the viewing area and floodlights to illuminate the crane at night. The Titan used a counterweight and electrically operated hoists all mounted on a rotated beam, making it faster
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The refurbished Titan Crane at Clydebank, situated adjacent to the fitting-out basin of the former John Brown & Company shipyard.
Titan Clydebank
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The ticket office (also known as the Pursers Office) and information centre at the Titan Crane, featuring a silhouette of the
RMS Queen Mary.
Titan Clydebank
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The Titan Crane's jib has been converted into a public viewing platform.
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Scottish Maritime Museum
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The Scottish Maritime Museum currently has collections located at two sites in the West of Scotland, both with strong maritime connections. The museums, located in Irvine and Dumbarton, each portray different areas of Scotland’s maritime heritage, a third museum, Clydebuilt at Braehead, originally opened in 1999 but was closed indefinitely during October 2010 due to lack of funding. The Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank, in Dumbarton, offers the opportunity to back into the world of the Victorian naval architect. Inspired by the work of eminent naval architect William Froude and completed in 1883, visitors can step into the past by touring the Shipyard Workers Tenement Flat where they can see a typical room and kitchen workers tenement flat, restored to its 1920s appearance. Opened in September 1999, it told of what was built on the Clyde, the ground floor of the centre used a timeline consisting of a large model of the River Clyde containing 300 gallons of flowing water. From the days of Glasgows Tobacco Lords, Mr Glassford, told how Glasgow made its fortune from tobacco, rum and sugar from the colonies. Glasgows rise to the Industrial Revolution was shown by cotton, iron and steel trading, with a printing press showing images of finished goods. An installation allows the visitor to see and hear at first hand the process of manufacturing iron, a range of traded products fill this area and the visitor could make their fortune at the hands-on Cargo Game or try their hands at piloting a tanker into port. The River Clyde led the world of shipbuilding, with over 30,000 vessels in 300 years from 250 yards, the Clyde-built coaster MV Kyles is permanently berthed at a pontoon on the River Clyde following her restoration at the Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine. A highly significant vessel built of iron in 1872 in Paisley, the Clydebuilt Museum was closed on 16 October 2010, after Capital Shopping Centres withdrew an annual subsidy that was an original condition of planning permission for Braehead Shopping Centre. There do not currently appear to be plans to relocate or reopen, the building is now occupied by a Krispy Kreme doughnut store which opened on 2 December 2015. The museum is operated by a charitable trust, the Scottish Maritime Museum Trust and it includes in its founding and continuing partners North Ayrshire Council It became operational in 1983. The first trust chairperson was Clydeside shipbuilder Ross Belch who held the post until 1998, since 2006 Scottish politician Sam Galbraith has been an energetic chairperson. One of the Trustees is Scottish industrial historian John R. Hume, the founding Director was Dr Henry C. Braehead,55. 87591°N4. 36172°W /55.87591, -4.36172 Dumbarton,55. 94342°N4. 56312°W /55.94342, -4.56312 Irvine,55. 60953°N4. 67684°W /55.60953, -4. com
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The A-listed 100m Denny
Ship Model Experiment Tank forms the centrepiece of the Dumbarton Museum.
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Early
side-lever engine designed by
Robert Napier, from PS Leven (1823), on display at Dumbarton
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The A-listed Linthouse Engine building forms the main exhibition hall at the Irvine Museum.
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City of Adelaide at the Irvine museum in April 2005. Controversy has surrounded funding her restoration for over a decade.
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Summerlee, Museum of Scottish Industrial Life
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Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, formerly known as Summerlee Heritage Park, is an industrial museum in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It was built on the site of the Victorian Summerlee Iron Works, the museum is managed by CultureNL Ltd. It temporarily closed in 2006, but reopened on 26 September 2008 following a £10m refurbishment, the former main hall was completely redesigned by North Lanarkshire Councils in-house Design Team and now includes a stainless steel café pod and futuristic viewing pavilion. The museum aims to show Lanarkshires contribution to engineering, and incorporates interactive displays, the museum also incorporates several railway steam locomotives, preserved carriages from a 1960s era Glasgow Class 311 and has a short working tram line. The original tramway used to terminate only 300 yards from the entrance at the shed, before the extension of the Gartsherrie Branch canal bridge. As continued tradition, the cars still halt at the shed before continuing over the bridge. A replica of the 1819 barge Vulcan, the first all-iron hulled vessel, Summerlee, Museum of Scottish Industrial Life - North Lanarkshire Councils Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life official website Details from Visit Lanarkshire
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Summerlee Heritage Park 2009
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Lanarkshire Tramways Company
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Glasgow Corporation Tramways (Ex. Paisley and District Tramways)
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Gallery of Modern Art
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The Gallery of Modern Art is the main gallery of contemporary art in Glasgow, Scotland. GoMA offers a programme of exhibitions and workshops. GoMA displays work by local and international artists as well as addressing contemporary issues through its major biannual projects. Opened in 1996, the Gallery of Modern Art is housed in a building in Royal Exchange Square in the heart of Glasgow city center. It was bought in 1817 by the Royal Bank of Scotland who later moved onto Buchanan Street, in 1954, Glasgow District Libraries moved the Stirlings Library into the building. When the library returned to Miller Street, the building was refurbished to house the citys art collection. Since its opening in 1996, the gallery has hosted several million visitors and it has a dedicated Education and Access studio, facilitating workshops and artists talks and in the basement a Learning Library. The building also contains a café, free Internet access terminals, multimedia, art, exhibits include works by David Hockney, Sebastiao Salgado, and Andy Warhol as well as Scottish artists such as John Bellany and Ken Currie. The mirrored pediment on the exterior of the building is by artist Niki de Saint Phalle, Saint Phalle also installed the mirrored vestibule to the gallery. In front of the gallery, on the Queen Street pavement, the statue usually has a traffic cone on its head, for many years the authorities regularly removed cones, only for them to be replaced. The jauntily placed cone has come to represent, particularly in tourist guidebooks, around the time of the Independence Referendum, a saltire was attached to the cone. The cone was painted gold during the 2012 Olympic games as a celebration of the haul of gold medals won by Team GB. Culture in Glasgow Glasgow Art Museum website Historic Glasgow Architecture Photographs of the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow
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Statue of the
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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
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The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is a museum and art gallery in Glasgow, Scotland. It reopened in 2006 after a refurbishment and since then has been one of Scotlands most popular visitor attractions. The gallery is located on Argyle Street, in the West End of the city and it is adjacent to Kelvingrove Park and is situated near the main campus of the University of Glasgow on Gilmorehill. The construction of Kelvingrove was partly financed by the proceeds of the 1888 International Exhibition held in Kelvingrove Park, the gallery was designed by Sir John W. Simpson and E. J. Milner Allen and opened in 1901, as the Palace of Fine Arts for the Glasgow International Exhibition held in that year, the centrepiece of the Centre Hall is a concert pipe organ constructed and installed by Lewis & Co. The organ was commissioned as part of the Glasgow International Exhibition. The organ was installed in the hall of the exhibition. The Centre Hall of the newly completed Art Gallery and Museum was intended from the beginning to be a space in which to hold concerts. When the 1901 exhibition ended, a Councillor urged the Glasgow Corporation to purchase the organ, stating that without it, purchase price and installation costs were met from the surplus exhibition proceeds, and the organ was installed in the Centre Hall by Lewis and Co. The present case front in walnut with non-functional display pipes was commissioned at this time from John W. Simpson, Simpson was the senior partner of Simpson & Milner Allen, architects of the gallery building. There is a myth in Glasgow, that the building was accidentally built back-to-front, and the architect jumped from one of the towers in despair. This is only an urban myth, the grand entrance was always intended to face into Kelvingrove Park. The museums collections came mainly from the McLellan Galleries and from the old Kelvingrove House Museum in Kelvingrove Park and it has one of the finest collections of arms and armour in the world and a vast natural history collection. The art collection includes many outstanding European artworks, including works by the Old Masters, French Impressionists, Dutch Renaissance, the museum houses Christ of Saint John of the Cross by Salvador Dalí. The copyright of this painting was bought by the curator at the time after a meeting with Dalí himself, for a period between 1993 and 2006, the painting was moved to the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art. The museum also contains a gift of the decorative arts from Anne Hull Grundy. Kelvingrove was reopened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 11 July 2006 after a closure for major refurbishment. The work cost around £28 million and includes a new restaurant, a new display layout and wayfinding scheme was introduced to make the building more visitor-friendly
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Rear elevation of the museum, looking westwards from
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General internal view. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland.
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General view of one of the halls. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
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Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
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The University of Glasgows Hunterian is the oldest museum in Scotland. In 1783, William Hunter bequeathed his substantial and varied collections to the University of Glasgow. in such sort, way, manner, shall seem most fit and most conducive to the improvement of the students of the said University of Glasgow. The museum first opened in 1807, in a specially constructed building off the High Street, when the University moved west to its new site at Gilmorehill the museum moved too. In 1870, the Hunterian collections were transferred to the University’s present site, the Universitys Librarian Professor Lockhart Muirhead became the first Keeper of the Hunterian Museum in 1823. As well as his collections, which arose from his own work, Hunter collected very widely, often assisted by his many royal. He and his agents scoured Europe for coins, minerals, paintings and prints, ethnographic materials, books and manuscripts, as well as insects, the museum contains many donated collections, such as the Begg Collection of fossils donated by James Livingstone Begg in the 1940s. This is also open to the general public, the insect collections are particularly important and extensive, and are the feature of some excellent recent displays. The Gallery is now housed in a modern, custom-built facility that is part of the extensive Glasgow University Library complex and this displays the Universitys extensive art collection, and features an outdoor sculpture garden. The bas relief aluminium doors to the Hunterian Gallery were designed by sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi, the gallerys collection includes a large number of the works of James McNeill Whistler and the majority of the watercolours of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The Hunterian Art Gallery reopened in September 2012 after a refurbishment, with a dedicated to Rembrandt, Rembrandt. The Mackintosh House is a concrete building, part of the gallery-library complex. One of the buildings lost,78 Southpark Avenue, was formerly a home to Glasgow architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the University rebuilt the form of the house approximately 100 metres from the site of the original. Due to its displacement, one door now hangs precariously above a 20-foot drop, the Mackintosh House features some of the original woodwork of the old terraced house, and features the meticulously reassembled interiors from Mackintoshs home. William Hunters brother John, a surgeon, also founded a museum, the museum displays thousands of anatomical specimens, including the Evelyn tables and the skeleton of the Irish giant Charles Byrne, and many surgical instruments. It underwent a refurbishment in 2003 and 2004, creating a new crystal gallery of steel. Both brothers are celebrated in the town of their birth, East Kilbride, Glasgow Art The Hunterians website The Hunterians searchable online catalogue
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William Hunter (1718–1783), anatomist and collector
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Main Hall, the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow.
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The Antonine Wall, Rome's final frontier, the Hunterian Museum.
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The Lady Shepenhor, the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University.
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Burrell Collection
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The Burrell Collection is an art collection in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is situated in Pollok Country Park on the side of the city. The museum closed for refurbishment on 23 October 2016 and is expected to reopen in 2020, the eclectic collection was acquired over many years by Sir William Burrell, a wealthy Glaswegian shipping magnate and art collector, who then gave it to the city of Glasgow Corporation in 1944. The trustees spent over 20 years trying to find a home for the collection, one which met all the criteria set out in the Trust Deed. Galleries on two house various smaller artefacts, over a basement storage level, and at the lower level a restaurant gives views over the lawn to the south. The museum was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1983, and was named as Scotlands second greatest post-war building in a poll of architects by Prospect magazine in 2005. The building was awarded A-listed status by Historic Scotland in February 2013 in recognition of its position as one of the country’s finest examples of 1970s architectural design, there are over 8,000 objects in the collection. Artworks from five centuries are found in the collection, Burrell started collecting Chinese antiques around 1910. The museum is home to one of the greatest assemblies of medieval stained glass in the world, there are more than 700 stained glass panels from across Europe in the collection, including many examples of Gothic, Renaissance and Romanesque styles. Much of the glass has heraldic motifs, in 2013 a project was commenced to conserve and research the museums collection of stained glass from the Carmelite church at Boppard-am-Rhein, Germany. The 34 panels that make up the Burrell collection of Boppard windows have a surface area of 14 square metres. The museum has a collection of art from the medieval period. This includes wood and stone sculptures, wooden church furnishings and architectural fragments, one of these items is the Temple Pyx. The nearest railway station to the Burrell Collection is Pollokshaws West, Pollok House, administered by the National Trust for Scotland, is also situated in Pollok Country Park. Hansard Blog following the ongoing Boppard Conservation Project Morrison, Richard, stained Glass in the Burrell Collection. Carpets and Tapestries from the Burrell Collection, the Burrell Collection, Gothic Tapestries, A Selection. Western Asiatic antiquities, the Burrell Collection
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The museum building housing the Burrell Collection, with the entrance wing in the background to the left, and the glazed restaurant on the right looking onto the lawn.
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Assyrian Royal Attendant from Nimrud, Mesopotamia.
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Figure of a Luohan from the Chenghua period.
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Statue of The Thinker, 1880 CE.
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McLellan Galleries
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The McLellan Galleries are an exhibition space in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, situated behind a frontage of shops in Sauchiehall Street. The Galleries were built in 1855-6 to a design by architect James Smith at a cost of £40,000 and are named after their founder, Archibald McLellan, a coach builder, councillor and patron of the arts. Following his death, Glasgow Corporation acquired the galleries and collection, the Galleries housed Glasgow School of Art from 1869 to 1899. In October 1986, the frontage building housing the Galleries was ravaged by fire. While Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum was closed for refurbishment between 2003 and 2006, the McLellan Galleries hosted a display of its best-loved works. The McLellan Galleries was then leased to the Glasgow School of Art as studio, the galleries have been protected as a category B listed building since 1970. Glasgow Museums website on the McLellan Glasgow City Councils page on the McLellan Galleries
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