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Another great Holy Week in Clydebank culminationg with our Easter Day Service lead by Rev John Harris. For Easter Day, our craft group, 'Craft Daft', had changed the Triptych to read...
'He is Risen... Alleluia!'
The question on the the Order of Service was...
The photographs in the article below of the A380 flying in over Clydebank triggered off a wee discussion. This resulted in the following pic being given to me by one of our congregation.
The only known fact was that it was taken by the owner's father who worked for Turner's Asbestos and was, going by the background, John Brown's Yard in Clydebank.
Ever one for a challenge I decided to use the power of the internet to try and establish the ship on the stocks.
Although not a lot to go on, my first conclusion was that, since what there was of the superstructure was towards the stern, the ship was a tanker.
I then trawled (no pun intended) through any info. that I could find on tankers built by John Brown's.
A number were eventually found but none matched the picture. Then, after more searching, I found an old Pathe News Reel that looked promising. I wasn't convinced until almost the last few frames, but yes, I am now convinced the old photograph shows the "British Trader" launched at John Brown's in 1957 (when the owner of the pic and myself were still at Dalmuir Primary School). It may be 'pushing the boat out', but the pic may actually have been taken on the day of the launch, since a closer look at the pic would appear to show that it has flags flying, one on the stern mast and one on a mast above the white superstructure. In the film this looks like the old Clydebank Burgh Flag.
Can anyone else confirm that it is indeed the "British Trader"? Even better, did you (or your father!) perhaps work on her??
And for info. in case you were wondering what this has to do with Abbotsford...
A ‘Quoad Sacra’ church was established on the site of the original shipyard (circa 1875) to meet the initial needs of the workers. This church became St James Parish Church and was the origin of Abbotsford as she is today.
Isn't life fascinating?
The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, flew into Glasgow airport for the first time yesterday and the Titan Plane met the Titan Crane.
Clydebuilt?
Well the Pilot, Iain Weir hails from Clydebank and went to Clydebank High School, so that will do for me!
Another good turn out for the meeting last evening, with some new faces to give their thoughts. More meat was put on the bone and the promotional flyer was updated accordingly (see below).
Everyone went away with things to do, or think about, for their individual part in the proceedings and we meet again after Easter.
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