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Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

88 - Building To Rule the Waves, Clydebank

Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

Fat Belly Films

News, Neil Oliver, History, Comment

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we hear the deafening roar of industry and see the spark fly as some of the world’s great ships are built. We’re on the banks of the river Clyde, a river that powered a city; as the say goes, ‘Glasgow made the Clyde and the Clyde made Glasgow’.

At one time the Clyde shipbuilders build a fifth of all the ships in the world - everything from luxury transatlantic flagships that crossed the world’s oceans to the legendary battlecruisers that would soon face a determined enemy in the coming Great war.


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0:00.0

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0:04.5

Or thousands of you will win a share of the prize.

0:06.7

But who will it be?

0:07.7

Maybe Raj, watching the racewalk and thinking I could do that.

0:10.6

Well speed walk down the shop and get yourself a ticket.

0:13.1

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0:17.6

rules and procedures apply players must be 18 or over.

0:20.0

Hello fellow time travellers I hope all's well with you and yours. Before

0:26.3

today's episode I just want to tell you a little bit about my Patreon site

0:29.9

which helps to support the making of this podcast.

0:33.0

The Patreon site is full of history and comment and every week Paul and I make and add on a new

0:39.2

podcast which is filmed here at my home in Stirling.

0:42.0

For folk are new to the site there's a great

0:44.3

archive of videos already. You can catch up on all of it from time to time. We run competitions.

0:50.6

To join me simply go to patreon.com and search for me by name, Neil Oliver, and I would love to have your support and company.

0:59.0

Okay, time to settle down and watch the sparks fly, as some of the world's great ships are built in this

1:04.7

week's love letter to the British Isles.

1:07.1

Q the music. It was a vibrant beating heart of a place and people loved it.

1:32.0

In this episode I'm taking you to one of my old stomping grounds where nature and history combined.

1:39.7

Dug deep and lined with shipbuilders, a mighty river was given an industrial face lift

1:42.0

that powered a city. Glasgow made the Clyde and the Clyde made Glasgow.

1:49.0

Fitters, riveters and welders and all the rest, Clyde built main, skilled, tough and hardworking above all else.

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