Yesterday, one of our volunteers found this sketch of a Scottish Cup design in amongst our plans for Fleming & Ferguson Ltd, Shipbuilders based in Paisley. The material had been used to protect and wrap the ship plans. St Mirren… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘shipbuilding’
Sammy Barr (1931-2012): shop steward and key figure in the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders 1971 ‘work-in’
Sammy Barr, the shop steward who was an influential figure in the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders ‘work-in’ of 1971, has died at the age of 80 in Glasgow. The Herald and The Scotsman published obituaries last week. Samuel Alexander Barr (known… Read More ›
Searchroom Vist: J & G Thomson & Co and the Riverside Museum
Emily Malcolm, Curator of Transport & Technology for Glasgow Museums, has been visiting our searchroom over the past year to research our ship building collections. She has been working on a new catalogue of the Ship Model Collection (due to… Read More ›
Scotts of Greenock Shipbuilders, a Family Enterprise from 1711 till Nationalisation in 1977
One of the members of the Scott shipbuilding family, Nigel Willis, recently got in touch with us to invite us to a presentation he is giving about his ancestors’ great company. We were delighted to hear from a descendent of… Read More ›
Innovative study analyses the language of 1930s shipbuilding
Yesterday an English Language postgraduate presented her initial findings from using our shipbuilding archives. Puteri Zarina Megat Khalid’s portgraduate research seminar was entitled “Modality Analysis of the Promotional Genre (in the shipbuilding domain)”. On study leave from her post lecturing… Read More ›
Jimmy Reid, Scottish Hero
On the first anniversary of the death of the Trade Union leader and former Rector of the University of Glasgow, an exhibition commemorating the life of Jimmy Reid has been launched on Archive Services’ Flickr site
“Reject the Rat Race!”
Jimmy Reid who died this week was University Rector from 1971 to 1974. Born in Govan, he became a shipyard worker and trade union official. He was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and was elected a… Read More ›
