When no longer needed, some of these punts, along with other vessels, were taken to this inlet off the Clyde near Erskine and left to decay on the muddy foreshore. This created a boat graveyard which can still be seen to this day.
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This was a continuous and essential process aimed at preventing the Clyde from silting up and becoming unnavigable to the large ships on which Glasgow's economy depended.
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They were once part of a fleet of hundreds of floating platforms which were used to move mud dredged from the bottom of the Clyde in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Abandoned mud punts at Newshot Island on the Clyde, with the Clydebank Titan Crane in the background.
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Love these column capitals featuring the prows of long boats on the second phase of the Clyde Navigation Trust building on the Broomielaw in Glasgow.
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All in all, it's a powerful representation of how Glasgow saw its role in the world at the time the sculpture was made.
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On its apex is Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea, standing on a boat being pulled by two rearing seahorses. Beneath the boat is the half-human Triton, Poseidon's son, rising from the depths.
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John Mossman's wonderful pediment sculpture on the 1884 section of the Clyde Navigation Trust building on Robertson Street in Glasgow.
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However, only the first two were ever completed, and the intended edifice running further east along the Broomielaw never made it beyond then planning stage, leaving a beautiful, but oddly unbalanced building.
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Designed by the great J.J.Burnet in a Beaux Arts Renaissance style, it was originally planned to have four phases, running left to right in this image.
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If you've ever looked at the Clyde Navigation Trust building on the corner of the Broomielaw and Robertson Street in Glasgow and thought it looks little unfinished, that is because it is.
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It's a really beautiful piece of design, but I can't decide if the asymmetry in the central roundel adds to or detracts from it!
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Some rather wonderful decorative ironwork on the Clyde Navigation Trust building on Robertson Street in Glasgow.
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A rather impressive ornamental crest in the opulent boardroom of J.J. Burnet's 1880s Clyde Navigation Trust building on Robertson Street in Glasgow.
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The rather opulent boardroom of J.J. Burnet's 1880s Clyde Navigation Trust building on Robertson Street in Glasgow.
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A rather beautiful stained glass window featuring a variation on the Glasgow Coat of Arms in the Clyde Navigation Trust building in Robertson Street in Glasgow.
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It became part of the Clyde Port Authority (the name surrounding the compass rose) in 1966, which was created through a merger of Clyde Navigation trust, the Greenock Harbour Trust and the Clyde Lighthouses Trust.
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The Clyde Navigation Trust was created in 1858 to managed all aspects of the port of Glasgow, including ensuring the Clyde remained navigable.
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Love this compass rose mosaic at the entrance to the Clyde Navigation Trust building on Robertson Street in Glasgow.
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