Clydeside Quotes

“No screaming of shells, no thunder of guns, only this close, hard pressure of human bodies, this desperate push of starving men.”
― Dot Allan, Makeshift & Hunger March: Two Novels

“Yard after yard passed by, the berths empty, the grass growing about the sinking keel blocks. And now only the gaunt, dumb poles and groups of men, workless, watching in silence the bitter passage of the vessel.”
― George Blake, The Shipbuilders

“The town and harbour of Greenock occupy a sheltered site, set amid surroundings of great natural beauty, at a point of strategic value which may justly be described as the Portal of the Clyde. For here the artificially deepened shipping channel of the river, flanked for miles down stream from Glasgow's docks by wide mudbanks and shoals, gives place to deep water at the famous "Tail of the Bank" of sailing men; the "Clyde Anchorage" of their war-time successors.

Here, too, the fairway flows close to the shore under the lee of a great promontory which affords shelter from the prevailing south-wet winds.

Thus Greenock, blessed as are few other ports by the twin assets of deep water and protection from storm, has taken high rank among them since the period when our overseas trade was first being built up.”
― Frank Mears, Greenock, Portal of the Clyde: An Outline Plan for Redevelopment