Port Glasgow (Scottish Gaelic:Port Ghlaschu, pronounced[pʰɔrˠʃt̪ˈɣlˠ̪as̪əxu]) is the second largest town in the Inverclydecouncil area of Scotland. The population according to the 1991 census for Port Glasgow was 19,426 persons and in the 2001 census was 16,617 persons. It is located immediately to the east of Greenock and was previously a burgh in the former county of Renfrew.
The town was originally named Newark but due to ships not being able to make it all the way up the shallow river Clyde it was formed as a port for nearby Glasgow in 1668 and became Port Glasgow in 1775. Port Glasgow was home to dry docks and shipbuilding beginning in 1762.
The town grew from the central area of the present town and thus many of the town's historic buildings are found here. Port Glasgow expanded up the steep hills inland to open fields where areas such as Park Farm, Boglestone, Slaemuir and Devol were founded. This area has subsequently become known as upper Port Glasgow and most of the town's population occupies these areas.
Glasgow grew from a small rural settlement on the River Clyde to become the largest seaport in Britain. Expanding from the medieval bishopric and royal burgh, and the later establishment of the University of Glasgow in the 15th century, it became a major centre of the Scottish Enlightenment in the 18th century. From the 18th century the city also grew as one of Great Britain's main hubs of transatlantic trade with North America and the West Indies.
With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, the population and economy of Glasgow and the surrounding region expanded rapidly to become one of the world's pre-eminent centres of chemicals, textiles and engineering; most notably in the shipbuilding and marine engineering industry, which produced many innovative and famous vessels. Glasgow was the "Second City of the British Empire" for much of the Victorian era and Edwardian period, although many cities argue the title was theirs.
Glasgow is a historic home located at Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland. It is a Federal style, gable-front, 21⁄2-story brick house built about 1792. Attached is a 11⁄2-story frame wing dating from the early 20th century. Local history sometimes holds that the home was the birthplace of William Vans Murray, but land records and Murray's biographical data both indicate that it is unlikely that it was ever his home. It is possible, however, that Murray stayed there for some time after his return from his service as foreign minister in the Netherlands, with his first cousin William Murray Robertson, the owner at the time.
In terms of first past the post constituencies the region included:
The constituencies were created with the names and boundaries of Westminster constituencies, as existing in 1999. Scottish Westminster constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies in 2005. Holyrood constituencies were unaltered.
Nine of the constituencies are entirely within the Glasgow City council area. The Rutherglen constituency includes a north-eastern area of the South Lanarkshire council area. Also, although central with respect to the region and entirely within the city area, Shettleston is in the south-east of the city area, on its boundary with the South Lanarkshire area.
A short film showing the town of Port Glasgow. The town I spent my childhood in and the footage shows the streets i played, shopped, socialised and was educated on. I made this as part of the series of films I've been doing documenting the Port as it is in 2023, as there are exciting plans to regenerate the town and its vast community spirit in the next few years in the run up to the towns 250th anniversary in 2025 and they have one mighty party planned to celebrate.
There are lots of community based plans to involve everyone and if you want to find out more about this there is a facebook page with details of the plans that are in the pipeline and ways you can get involved.
https://www.facebook.com/PortGlasgow2025
I'd like to give a special mention to two facebook groups tha...
published: 17 Apr 2023
The Most Dangerous Abandoned City | Families Vanished
The Clune Park estate, in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, was once a thriving community of shipyard workers in the 1920s. But it is now home to only around 20 people living in a handful of the 430 flats.
property on the estate was once the cheapest in Britain, with one flat selling for just £7,000 at auction - but it has been plagued by arsonists and vandals with shops, a primary school and church are all boarded up and abandoned.
Plans to bulldoze the tenement blocks has resulted in a long and bitter battle between Inverclyde Council and private landlords refusing to sell up.
The leader of Inverclyde Council, Stephen McCabe, previously said 'it would remind you of somewhere like Chernobyl".
The flats have become a magnet for arsonists and vandals, and some are in such poor condition that t...
published: 09 Jan 2022
PORT GLASGOW, INVERCLYDE, SCOTLAND. Lower Port Glasgow.
A Short film of Lower Port Glasgow -essentially the west end of the Port.
The paths I took as a child and the places I grew up in.
A lot has changed in the 30 odd years since i've lived here. For the better? Im not that certain it is. I've labelled all the places of interest and street names to help any ex pats of Port Glasgow get some bearings.
Thanks for watching, comments very welcome and as always please like subscribe and share if you want more content like this.
published: 01 Mar 2023
A birds eye view of the East end of Port Glasgow
Woodhall and the area around it has probably seen the most change in the town of Port Glasgow in the last 30 years.
What was once a community of tenements, avenues of cottage flats and Social housing that was probably long overdue demolition, the East end of Port Glasgow has undergone a transformation. Long gone are the tenements, and soon to be gone is Kelburn terrace (as far as I know). In their place are new build social housing, lots of empty space that hopefully will catch developer eyes and create more much needed new affordable housing for the town.
My dad owned a fish and chip shop in this part of town in the mid 80s. Sadly its a distant memory and part of the demise of this part of town was the bypass road by the riverside that meant shops and businesses were no longer ...
published: 13 Apr 2023
Port Glasgow nov 2021
Aerial view of Port Glasgow
published: 18 Nov 2021
Port Glasgow
Port Glasgow stands on the south bank of the River Clyde some 18 miles north west of the centre of Glasgow. It is the second largest of the three towns in Inverclyde, the largest being Greenock, which shares its riverside setting and can be found some three miles further north west. The town is well served by the A8 dual carriageway road, which runs along the river valley, and by rail services which do likewise.
There was probably a fishing village on the south bank of the River Clyde here when, in about 1480, George Maxwell, who had inherited the Barony of Finlaystone two years earlier, began to build his "New Werke of Finlastoun" beside the river. The name seems to have migrated from "New Werke" to "Newark" quite swiftly, and Newark Castle still stands, less than half a mile from the ce...
published: 14 Oct 2020
Upper Port Glasgow & Lilybank May 2022
Some drone shots of Upper Port Glasgow and Lilybank. The Upper Port Glasgow shots were taken from above the Boglestone roundabout and from above Slaemuir Avenue. The Lily bank shots were taken from above Dougliehill.
Photos taken with a DJI Mini 2 drone and edited with Affinity Photo. Video edited with Filmora 11.
published: 16 May 2022
Port Glasgow station - Access for All. March 2023 update
📌 Live in Port Glasgow? Here's Laura with an update on your new Access for All funded footbridge and lifts.
Work is now well underway! 🛗
published: 14 Mar 2023
Old Photographs Of Port Glasgow Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Port Glasgow, Scottish Gaelic: Port Ghlasch, the second largest town in the Inverclyde council area. The town was originally named Newark but due to ships not being able to make it all the way up the shallow river Clyde it was formed as a port for nearby Glasgow in 1668 and became Port Glasgow in 1775. Port Glasgow was home to dry docks and shipbuilding beginning in 1762. The town grew from the central area of the present town and thus many of the town's historic buildings are found here. Port Glasgow expanded up the steep hills inland to open fields where areas such as Park Farm, Boglestone, Slaemuir and Devol were founded. This area has subsequently become known as upper Port Glasgow and most of the town's population occupies these area. The ...
published: 26 Jul 2019
Derelict Flats in Port Glasgow, Scotland.
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Also I said that they were built in the 20's/60's. This is just completely wrong. They were built in the 50's
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A short film showing the town of Port Glasgow. The town I spent my childhood in and the footage shows the streets i played, shopped, socialised and was educ...
A short film showing the town of Port Glasgow. The town I spent my childhood in and the footage shows the streets i played, shopped, socialised and was educated on. I made this as part of the series of films I've been doing documenting the Port as it is in 2023, as there are exciting plans to regenerate the town and its vast community spirit in the next few years in the run up to the towns 250th anniversary in 2025 and they have one mighty party planned to celebrate.
There are lots of community based plans to involve everyone and if you want to find out more about this there is a facebook page with details of the plans that are in the pipeline and ways you can get involved.
https://www.facebook.com/PortGlasgow2025
I'd like to give a special mention to two facebook groups that have been a bit of a lifeline for me in recent months as I've returned to live here and its a different place completely to the place I left 30 years back. The people however are still as great as ever and thats the success story of Port Glasgow, so thanks. Port Glasgow Memories and Port Glasgow Nostalgia for allowing me to share my footage with you and for the reminders of home how it was back in my day.
As always please feel free to comment and share my videos (any of them). A subscription to my channel would be great because the more subscribers the less chance of my videos fading into obscurity.
Anyway, Thank you for watching yet another one of my videos.
Music for this one
'Always with you, always with me' by Daddys Music.
A short film showing the town of Port Glasgow. The town I spent my childhood in and the footage shows the streets i played, shopped, socialised and was educated on. I made this as part of the series of films I've been doing documenting the Port as it is in 2023, as there are exciting plans to regenerate the town and its vast community spirit in the next few years in the run up to the towns 250th anniversary in 2025 and they have one mighty party planned to celebrate.
There are lots of community based plans to involve everyone and if you want to find out more about this there is a facebook page with details of the plans that are in the pipeline and ways you can get involved.
https://www.facebook.com/PortGlasgow2025
I'd like to give a special mention to two facebook groups that have been a bit of a lifeline for me in recent months as I've returned to live here and its a different place completely to the place I left 30 years back. The people however are still as great as ever and thats the success story of Port Glasgow, so thanks. Port Glasgow Memories and Port Glasgow Nostalgia for allowing me to share my footage with you and for the reminders of home how it was back in my day.
As always please feel free to comment and share my videos (any of them). A subscription to my channel would be great because the more subscribers the less chance of my videos fading into obscurity.
Anyway, Thank you for watching yet another one of my videos.
Music for this one
'Always with you, always with me' by Daddys Music.
The Clune Park estate, in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, was once a thriving community of shipyard workers in the 1920s. But it is now home to only around 20 people ...
The Clune Park estate, in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, was once a thriving community of shipyard workers in the 1920s. But it is now home to only around 20 people living in a handful of the 430 flats.
property on the estate was once the cheapest in Britain, with one flat selling for just £7,000 at auction - but it has been plagued by arsonists and vandals with shops, a primary school and church are all boarded up and abandoned.
Plans to bulldoze the tenement blocks has resulted in a long and bitter battle between Inverclyde Council and private landlords refusing to sell up.
The leader of Inverclyde Council, Stephen McCabe, previously said 'it would remind you of somewhere like Chernobyl".
The flats have become a magnet for arsonists and vandals, and some are in such poor condition that they pose a health risk.
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The Clune Park estate, in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, was once a thriving community of shipyard workers in the 1920s. But it is now home to only around 20 people living in a handful of the 430 flats.
property on the estate was once the cheapest in Britain, with one flat selling for just £7,000 at auction - but it has been plagued by arsonists and vandals with shops, a primary school and church are all boarded up and abandoned.
Plans to bulldoze the tenement blocks has resulted in a long and bitter battle between Inverclyde Council and private landlords refusing to sell up.
The leader of Inverclyde Council, Stephen McCabe, previously said 'it would remind you of somewhere like Chernobyl".
The flats have become a magnet for arsonists and vandals, and some are in such poor condition that they pose a health risk.
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A Short film of Lower Port Glasgow -essentially the west end of the Port.
The paths I took as a child and the places I grew up in.
A lot has changed in the...
A Short film of Lower Port Glasgow -essentially the west end of the Port.
The paths I took as a child and the places I grew up in.
A lot has changed in the 30 odd years since i've lived here. For the better? Im not that certain it is. I've labelled all the places of interest and street names to help any ex pats of Port Glasgow get some bearings.
Thanks for watching, comments very welcome and as always please like subscribe and share if you want more content like this.
A Short film of Lower Port Glasgow -essentially the west end of the Port.
The paths I took as a child and the places I grew up in.
A lot has changed in the 30 odd years since i've lived here. For the better? Im not that certain it is. I've labelled all the places of interest and street names to help any ex pats of Port Glasgow get some bearings.
Thanks for watching, comments very welcome and as always please like subscribe and share if you want more content like this.
Woodhall and the area around it has probably seen the most change in the town of Port Glasgow in the last 30 years.
What was once a community of tenements, a...
Woodhall and the area around it has probably seen the most change in the town of Port Glasgow in the last 30 years.
What was once a community of tenements, avenues of cottage flats and Social housing that was probably long overdue demolition, the East end of Port Glasgow has undergone a transformation. Long gone are the tenements, and soon to be gone is Kelburn terrace (as far as I know). In their place are new build social housing, lots of empty space that hopefully will catch developer eyes and create more much needed new affordable housing for the town.
My dad owned a fish and chip shop in this part of town in the mid 80s. Sadly its a distant memory and part of the demise of this part of town was the bypass road by the riverside that meant shops and businesses were no longer getting the benefit of passing trade.
As always comments are very welcome, and my channel is my hobby, i'm not intending to monetise at any point so if you see ads, they are youtube generated and nothing to do with me (I highly recommend youtube premium).
Music for this video is 'Moher cinematic electronic uplifting chillout music'
The artist is called 'AlanFrijns'
His youtube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbanhn2NscuVSuDdPrJYqZg?sub_confirmation=1
Thank you for watching and I hope you enjoy the video.
Woodhall and the area around it has probably seen the most change in the town of Port Glasgow in the last 30 years.
What was once a community of tenements, avenues of cottage flats and Social housing that was probably long overdue demolition, the East end of Port Glasgow has undergone a transformation. Long gone are the tenements, and soon to be gone is Kelburn terrace (as far as I know). In their place are new build social housing, lots of empty space that hopefully will catch developer eyes and create more much needed new affordable housing for the town.
My dad owned a fish and chip shop in this part of town in the mid 80s. Sadly its a distant memory and part of the demise of this part of town was the bypass road by the riverside that meant shops and businesses were no longer getting the benefit of passing trade.
As always comments are very welcome, and my channel is my hobby, i'm not intending to monetise at any point so if you see ads, they are youtube generated and nothing to do with me (I highly recommend youtube premium).
Music for this video is 'Moher cinematic electronic uplifting chillout music'
The artist is called 'AlanFrijns'
His youtube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbanhn2NscuVSuDdPrJYqZg?sub_confirmation=1
Thank you for watching and I hope you enjoy the video.
Port Glasgow stands on the south bank of the River Clyde some 18 miles north west of the centre of Glasgow. It is the second largest of the three towns in Inver...
Port Glasgow stands on the south bank of the River Clyde some 18 miles north west of the centre of Glasgow. It is the second largest of the three towns in Inverclyde, the largest being Greenock, which shares its riverside setting and can be found some three miles further north west. The town is well served by the A8 dual carriageway road, which runs along the river valley, and by rail services which do likewise.
There was probably a fishing village on the south bank of the River Clyde here when, in about 1480, George Maxwell, who had inherited the Barony of Finlaystone two years earlier, began to build his "New Werke of Finlastoun" beside the river. The name seems to have migrated from "New Werke" to "Newark" quite swiftly, and Newark Castle still stands, less than half a mile from the centre of Port Glasgow.
Port Glasgow stands on the south bank of the River Clyde some 18 miles north west of the centre of Glasgow. It is the second largest of the three towns in Inverclyde, the largest being Greenock, which shares its riverside setting and can be found some three miles further north west. The town is well served by the A8 dual carriageway road, which runs along the river valley, and by rail services which do likewise.
There was probably a fishing village on the south bank of the River Clyde here when, in about 1480, George Maxwell, who had inherited the Barony of Finlaystone two years earlier, began to build his "New Werke of Finlastoun" beside the river. The name seems to have migrated from "New Werke" to "Newark" quite swiftly, and Newark Castle still stands, less than half a mile from the centre of Port Glasgow.
Some drone shots of Upper Port Glasgow and Lilybank. The Upper Port Glasgow shots were taken from above the Boglestone roundabout and from above Slaemuir Avenue...
Some drone shots of Upper Port Glasgow and Lilybank. The Upper Port Glasgow shots were taken from above the Boglestone roundabout and from above Slaemuir Avenue. The Lily bank shots were taken from above Dougliehill.
Photos taken with a DJI Mini 2 drone and edited with Affinity Photo. Video edited with Filmora 11.
Some drone shots of Upper Port Glasgow and Lilybank. The Upper Port Glasgow shots were taken from above the Boglestone roundabout and from above Slaemuir Avenue. The Lily bank shots were taken from above Dougliehill.
Photos taken with a DJI Mini 2 drone and edited with Affinity Photo. Video edited with Filmora 11.
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Port Glasgow, Scottish Gaelic: Port Ghlasch, the second largest town in the Inverclyde council area. The town was ...
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Port Glasgow, Scottish Gaelic: Port Ghlasch, the second largest town in the Inverclyde council area. The town was originally named Newark but due to ships not being able to make it all the way up the shallow river Clyde it was formed as a port for nearby Glasgow in 1668 and became Port Glasgow in 1775. Port Glasgow was home to dry docks and shipbuilding beginning in 1762. The town grew from the central area of the present town and thus many of the town's historic buildings are found here. Port Glasgow expanded up the steep hills inland to open fields where areas such as Park Farm, Boglestone, Slaemuir and Devol were founded. This area has subsequently become known as upper Port Glasgow and most of the town's population occupies these area. The grid pattern of the streets in the town centre was laid out in 1694 and took advantage of the flat area of raised beach. The grid pattern remains largely intact today, consisting of Princes Street, King Street, Bay Street, Fore Street, John Wood Street, Church Street and Scarlow Street. Star Hotel in Port Glasgow was built and owned by Mr Denniston of Greenock and was formally opened on 16th August 1870. The tenant Mr William Shaw entertained the provost and magistrates of Port Glasgow to an elegant luncheon to mark the opening where Mr Adam Patterson proposed a toast to the new hotel and noted it was about 30 years since the town had a first class hotel. Newark Parish Church was built in 1774, it is the oldest remaining church in Port Glasgow sited on the axis of Balfour Street. It is an austere, symmetrical 2 storey building with 5 windows in the long walls. The church was built in rubble and to a largely Classical design and has pavilion roofs and galleries. In 1920-22 the square apse was built to be an organ chamber. It was altered and refurbished to become a chancel by Mervyn Noad of Glasgow. There was excellent woodwork and stained glass by Archibald Dawson and Charles Bailey but this was removed some time ago. A steeple for the centre of the north front was always intended but was never built. The south side features a relatively new brick extension. The church congregation was forced to unite with another in recent years, resulting in this church closing down. Newark Castle stands very close to the shore of the Clyde, and dates to around 1484. It was home to the Maxwell Family until 1694.
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Port Glasgow, Scottish Gaelic: Port Ghlasch, the second largest town in the Inverclyde council area. The town was originally named Newark but due to ships not being able to make it all the way up the shallow river Clyde it was formed as a port for nearby Glasgow in 1668 and became Port Glasgow in 1775. Port Glasgow was home to dry docks and shipbuilding beginning in 1762. The town grew from the central area of the present town and thus many of the town's historic buildings are found here. Port Glasgow expanded up the steep hills inland to open fields where areas such as Park Farm, Boglestone, Slaemuir and Devol were founded. This area has subsequently become known as upper Port Glasgow and most of the town's population occupies these area. The grid pattern of the streets in the town centre was laid out in 1694 and took advantage of the flat area of raised beach. The grid pattern remains largely intact today, consisting of Princes Street, King Street, Bay Street, Fore Street, John Wood Street, Church Street and Scarlow Street. Star Hotel in Port Glasgow was built and owned by Mr Denniston of Greenock and was formally opened on 16th August 1870. The tenant Mr William Shaw entertained the provost and magistrates of Port Glasgow to an elegant luncheon to mark the opening where Mr Adam Patterson proposed a toast to the new hotel and noted it was about 30 years since the town had a first class hotel. Newark Parish Church was built in 1774, it is the oldest remaining church in Port Glasgow sited on the axis of Balfour Street. It is an austere, symmetrical 2 storey building with 5 windows in the long walls. The church was built in rubble and to a largely Classical design and has pavilion roofs and galleries. In 1920-22 the square apse was built to be an organ chamber. It was altered and refurbished to become a chancel by Mervyn Noad of Glasgow. There was excellent woodwork and stained glass by Archibald Dawson and Charles Bailey but this was removed some time ago. A steeple for the centre of the north front was always intended but was never built. The south side features a relatively new brick extension. The church congregation was forced to unite with another in recent years, resulting in this church closing down. Newark Castle stands very close to the shore of the Clyde, and dates to around 1484. It was home to the Maxwell Family until 1694.
I know I said in the video that this is my 2nd, this is my first video!
Also I said that they were built in the 20's/60's. This is just completely wrong. They ...
I know I said in the video that this is my 2nd, this is my first video!
Also I said that they were built in the 20's/60's. This is just completely wrong. They were built in the 50's
Please like and subscribe if you enjoyed my content, I have just started and want to try and reach 100 subs!
Thank you so much
#derelictbuildings #derelict #scotland #flats
I know I said in the video that this is my 2nd, this is my first video!
Also I said that they were built in the 20's/60's. This is just completely wrong. They were built in the 50's
Please like and subscribe if you enjoyed my content, I have just started and want to try and reach 100 subs!
Thank you so much
#derelictbuildings #derelict #scotland #flats
A short film showing the town of Port Glasgow. The town I spent my childhood in and the footage shows the streets i played, shopped, socialised and was educated on. I made this as part of the series of films I've been doing documenting the Port as it is in 2023, as there are exciting plans to regenerate the town and its vast community spirit in the next few years in the run up to the towns 250th anniversary in 2025 and they have one mighty party planned to celebrate.
There are lots of community based plans to involve everyone and if you want to find out more about this there is a facebook page with details of the plans that are in the pipeline and ways you can get involved.
https://www.facebook.com/PortGlasgow2025
I'd like to give a special mention to two facebook groups that have been a bit of a lifeline for me in recent months as I've returned to live here and its a different place completely to the place I left 30 years back. The people however are still as great as ever and thats the success story of Port Glasgow, so thanks. Port Glasgow Memories and Port Glasgow Nostalgia for allowing me to share my footage with you and for the reminders of home how it was back in my day.
As always please feel free to comment and share my videos (any of them). A subscription to my channel would be great because the more subscribers the less chance of my videos fading into obscurity.
Anyway, Thank you for watching yet another one of my videos.
Music for this one
'Always with you, always with me' by Daddys Music.
The Clune Park estate, in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, was once a thriving community of shipyard workers in the 1920s. But it is now home to only around 20 people living in a handful of the 430 flats.
property on the estate was once the cheapest in Britain, with one flat selling for just £7,000 at auction - but it has been plagued by arsonists and vandals with shops, a primary school and church are all boarded up and abandoned.
Plans to bulldoze the tenement blocks has resulted in a long and bitter battle between Inverclyde Council and private landlords refusing to sell up.
The leader of Inverclyde Council, Stephen McCabe, previously said 'it would remind you of somewhere like Chernobyl".
The flats have become a magnet for arsonists and vandals, and some are in such poor condition that they pose a health risk.
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A Short film of Lower Port Glasgow -essentially the west end of the Port.
The paths I took as a child and the places I grew up in.
A lot has changed in the 30 odd years since i've lived here. For the better? Im not that certain it is. I've labelled all the places of interest and street names to help any ex pats of Port Glasgow get some bearings.
Thanks for watching, comments very welcome and as always please like subscribe and share if you want more content like this.
Woodhall and the area around it has probably seen the most change in the town of Port Glasgow in the last 30 years.
What was once a community of tenements, avenues of cottage flats and Social housing that was probably long overdue demolition, the East end of Port Glasgow has undergone a transformation. Long gone are the tenements, and soon to be gone is Kelburn terrace (as far as I know). In their place are new build social housing, lots of empty space that hopefully will catch developer eyes and create more much needed new affordable housing for the town.
My dad owned a fish and chip shop in this part of town in the mid 80s. Sadly its a distant memory and part of the demise of this part of town was the bypass road by the riverside that meant shops and businesses were no longer getting the benefit of passing trade.
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Port Glasgow stands on the south bank of the River Clyde some 18 miles north west of the centre of Glasgow. It is the second largest of the three towns in Inverclyde, the largest being Greenock, which shares its riverside setting and can be found some three miles further north west. The town is well served by the A8 dual carriageway road, which runs along the river valley, and by rail services which do likewise.
There was probably a fishing village on the south bank of the River Clyde here when, in about 1480, George Maxwell, who had inherited the Barony of Finlaystone two years earlier, began to build his "New Werke of Finlastoun" beside the river. The name seems to have migrated from "New Werke" to "Newark" quite swiftly, and Newark Castle still stands, less than half a mile from the centre of Port Glasgow.
Some drone shots of Upper Port Glasgow and Lilybank. The Upper Port Glasgow shots were taken from above the Boglestone roundabout and from above Slaemuir Avenue. The Lily bank shots were taken from above Dougliehill.
Photos taken with a DJI Mini 2 drone and edited with Affinity Photo. Video edited with Filmora 11.
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Port Glasgow, Scottish Gaelic: Port Ghlasch, the second largest town in the Inverclyde council area. The town was originally named Newark but due to ships not being able to make it all the way up the shallow river Clyde it was formed as a port for nearby Glasgow in 1668 and became Port Glasgow in 1775. Port Glasgow was home to dry docks and shipbuilding beginning in 1762. The town grew from the central area of the present town and thus many of the town's historic buildings are found here. Port Glasgow expanded up the steep hills inland to open fields where areas such as Park Farm, Boglestone, Slaemuir and Devol were founded. This area has subsequently become known as upper Port Glasgow and most of the town's population occupies these area. The grid pattern of the streets in the town centre was laid out in 1694 and took advantage of the flat area of raised beach. The grid pattern remains largely intact today, consisting of Princes Street, King Street, Bay Street, Fore Street, John Wood Street, Church Street and Scarlow Street. Star Hotel in Port Glasgow was built and owned by Mr Denniston of Greenock and was formally opened on 16th August 1870. The tenant Mr William Shaw entertained the provost and magistrates of Port Glasgow to an elegant luncheon to mark the opening where Mr Adam Patterson proposed a toast to the new hotel and noted it was about 30 years since the town had a first class hotel. Newark Parish Church was built in 1774, it is the oldest remaining church in Port Glasgow sited on the axis of Balfour Street. It is an austere, symmetrical 2 storey building with 5 windows in the long walls. The church was built in rubble and to a largely Classical design and has pavilion roofs and galleries. In 1920-22 the square apse was built to be an organ chamber. It was altered and refurbished to become a chancel by Mervyn Noad of Glasgow. There was excellent woodwork and stained glass by Archibald Dawson and Charles Bailey but this was removed some time ago. A steeple for the centre of the north front was always intended but was never built. The south side features a relatively new brick extension. The church congregation was forced to unite with another in recent years, resulting in this church closing down. Newark Castle stands very close to the shore of the Clyde, and dates to around 1484. It was home to the Maxwell Family until 1694.
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Port Glasgow (Scottish Gaelic:Port Ghlaschu, pronounced[pʰɔrˠʃt̪ˈɣlˠ̪as̪əxu]) is the second largest town in the Inverclydecouncil area of Scotland. The population according to the 1991 census for Port Glasgow was 19,426 persons and in the 2001 census was 16,617 persons. It is located immediately to the east of Greenock and was previously a burgh in the former county of Renfrew.
The town was originally named Newark but due to ships not being able to make it all the way up the shallow river Clyde it was formed as a port for nearby Glasgow in 1668 and became Port Glasgow in 1775. Port Glasgow was home to dry docks and shipbuilding beginning in 1762.
The town grew from the central area of the present town and thus many of the town's historic buildings are found here. Port Glasgow expanded up the steep hills inland to open fields where areas such as Park Farm, Boglestone, Slaemuir and Devol were founded. This area has subsequently become known as upper Port Glasgow and most of the town's population occupies these areas.