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RIVERSIDE MUSEUM
Glasgow`s new transport museum.
Tuesday 21st June was the day Glasgow was waiting for . The opening of the new Transport museum. As it was built near the river Clyde it is called the Riverside museum. It is free to enter [like all Glasgow museums] .
Great place to go when it`s wet and the kids will love it.
What a pleasant welcome I received and even Mr Gordon Mathieson ,the head of the Glasgow council was there to shake my hand. The weather was poor but that didn't dampen the spirits of the many school kids there to see Glasgow`s big event.
I took the train to Partick and walked from the station. I had a damaged my knee so struggled with the distance from the train to the Riverside. Took about 15 mins.
Glasgow`s last Transport Museum was in the Kelvin hall .Before that it was based at Albert drive in the south side of Glasgow. Great Memories of my dad taking me to the former tram depot in Pollockshields. The new transport museum cost £74 million.
Bairdstravel donated to the appeal.
The Riverside museum was building was designed Zara Hadid Architects . I know
nothing about design but to me it`s looks really cool. From a distance it looks like a graph or even an area chart with it`s up and downs. If you look at the photograph below you may see what I`m going on about. From above it looks like an abstract iceskate.
These are just my daft thoughts on Glasgow`s new attraction. Zara also designed the Maggie`s centre in Kirkcaldy.
The museum is built on the old A and J Inglis shipyard at Pointhouse Quay. Over 500 ships were built by the shipyard. The most famous being the last ocean going paddle steamer the Waverley. The Waverley is still offering cruises down the river Clyde.
PS Waverley is named after Sir Walter Scott`s first novel . She was built in 1946 as a replacement for an earlier PS Waverley of 1899 that took part in the World War 2 war effort as a minesweeper and was sunk in 1940 while helping with the evacuation of troops from
Dunkirk.
Now this was fun . Walk back in time to the 1930`s. When I got there it was very busy but when a returned later on it was a pleasure to stroll through less crowded street.
Westend walks of Glasgow looks forward to taking tourist up this street.
Please take the time to have a look at my images from the opening of the new Riverside museum . Scotland`s Transport and Travel Museum.
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Great to walk back in time and see the trams going to well kent places.
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Glasgow`s Tallship the Glenlee. Reopened to the public, docked beside the riverside.