An aerial view of the Clyde shipyards and docks, 1956

Aerial views of the Clyde shipyards and docks from Queens Dock to Renfrew. The clip is from The Scottish Screen Archive collection. For more information about this film including details of how to obtain a copy please follow this link http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=2382
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Education

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• scotland
• scottish
• clyde
• glasgow
• renfrew
• dock
• ships
• shipyard
• queen's
• aerial
• aeroplane

[SDC05061956]

0:33 to 0:37 Yarrows Shipyard (Now BAE Systems Scotstoun)

0:38 to 0:48 Yoker Power Station on north side of river and Simons Lobnitz shipyard on the Renfrew side

0:49 to end Rothesay Dock Clydebank

[SDC05061956]

0:00 to 0:08 Queens Dock (now SECC) and river Plantation Quay (now Glasgow Science Centre)

0:09 to 0:15 Yorkhill Quay& Basin with one of the Anchor Line's Glasgow - India service ships at the quay (either Circassia, Cilicia or Caledonia)

0:15 to 0:22 Fairfields (now BAE Systems Govan) with Meadowside Granary beyond

0:23 to 0:27 a 'blue flue' liner in KGV Dock

0:28 to 0:30 flying over Braehead Power Station (now the shopping mall) - flue gases from chimney at bottom of view