Looking west down the Clyde towards the Riverside Museum on Pointhouse Quay. Beside the museum is the tall ship the Glenlee, one of the last surviving tall ships built on the Clyde. Built as a cargo ship in Port Glasgow in 1896, it eventually ended up as a training ship in the Spanish navy. She was retired in 1981 and was close to being scrapped when she was rescued and return to the Clyde to be restored and turned into a museum. In the distance to the left of the tall ship is one of the four remaining Titan cranes on the Clyde. It was built by William Arrol and Co in 1920 at the Barclay Curle shipyard in the Whiteinch area of Glasgow. In the foreground is the remains of the Queen’s Dock ferryport, where ferries would once have carried cars and passengers back and forth across the Clyde. Now abandoned, it is primarily inhabited by birds, such as the female mallard duck in the bottom right of the photo. This photograph was taken at sunset by Colin M. Drysdale from this ferryport.
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