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This video has not diminished since the last time I watched it, is still as good as it was 10 Months ago, so a big thank you to the person who made this trimendous video of Clyde steamships, l say - well done ✅👍.

Excellent quality footage and a very good camera man/woman. Thanks for posting.

I have so many beautiful memories of the paddle steamers on school holidays going “doon the watter” to Dunoon, where the family had a wee cottage called Glenartney. I eventually joined the Merchant Navy and my home port was the Clyde. Magic memories.

Takes me right back to the good old days,If only we had a Time Machine,I am filling up listening to this, brilliant! times❤xx

Was there very special venue remember levine turning up with bodyguards not a good reception never forget that night

Every summer, from the early 80s until the early 2000s, me, my schoolmates and our families and neighbours, took the Waverly or Balmoral from Swansea to Ilfracombe for a glorified pub crawl lol. Each year, my dad and I would buy a watch from Britton's jewellers on the corner and of course, we all had Fish n' chips on the seafront. I'm 60 this year. My folks and most of my neighbours, are long gone and I now live in Brunei. They were great days.

I went on holiday as a boy in the 1960s to Rothesay with my parents, grandparents, brothers & sister on the Waverley, which made a stopover at Wemyss Bay! (It's to bad the boat didn't fly a SCOTTISH flag instead of that English red rag.)

Happy days "goin' doon the watter".

Love the music, what is it?

Brilliant film really capturing the atmosphere. Went on Queen Mary and my Dad got me into the engine room, he was ex Navy. Great experience for a young lad about nine.

Your video was visually wonderful. The music and fake birds really brought it down.

What an amazing clip. I often read about those great Clyde Steamers and just wish I was born a few years earlier as they were extremely handsome ships. Almost like mini ocean liners. Thanks for posting

Seems a very high quality conversin to digital, how did you do it? I have the Cardiff queen picking up and dropping pilots on the way to the isles of Scilly. The commercial company I used had too many blocky artifacts. Yours doesn't.

I remember climbing into small boats to visit Iona from the kgv. Must have been about 6, scary. Lovely reminder.

Abbotsbury is on my list of gardens to visit!

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I can’t get over how good their tree ferns are looking - in March! Mine are brown tatters! Thanks for sharing, it’s on my list of places to visit. Anyway, I’ve just subscribed and look forward to seeing more of your videos. I have a gardening channel too that you might like - check it out!

Great video. I can see my father who was Chief Engineer on the Caledonia from around 1954 until she was withdrawn in 1969. Shortly afterwards, when the Chief on the Waverley retired, my father was asked to become her Chief, and was so until she was sold to the Trust for £1. I spent two wonderful summer seasons working as Deck Boy on the fabulous Duchess of Hamilton. Thanks for the memories.

Lovely. And all those steamers, a shame they are not still around. Thanks for keeping them on film. Long will they be remembered with their many passengers. Happy days. Many thanks. Rmb5*

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The golden days of Northern Soul were 1967 - 1980 ... Sadly things went downhill after that ......

Aye! fair braw! I miss ma hame and these moving pictures only exacerbate the home sickness!!!

Waz there used to love going up to the ritz usually on a bank holiday and boxing night Xmas fantastic venue with the bouncy dance floor great memories

It was surreal.

Sadly never made it to the Ritz, I wish I had

Thanks for sharing your home movies, we moved to Dunoon in 1964 when I was twelve. The pier and the games was really something , the summers during the 60s were so full of life, good times.

Beautiful Japanese Maple at the end!

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What we considered " Rare :" then ... Commonplace nowadays .... How things have changed eh? 200Kid.

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What a great SET OF RECORDS..👊🏼

Do you know where the original footage for this is located? My grandfather, who passed away many years ago, was chief engineer on the one of the steamships and my father reckons you can see him on deck shortly before the 8 minute mark.

May I use some of this footage for an upcoming project for a charity? Credit will be given of course.

Awesome thank you

Went to the Heart Of England Soul Club Sunday alldayers in the late seventies. The raised sprung dance floor great for dancers

Breathtaking garden!

I have thurly enjoyed this great video, what a thrill to see some of🎉 these old Clyde river steamers & only the Waverley remains, so thanks for posting this video of these great steamer s

Just seen my late father on the windlass tying up, either Dutchess of Montrose ,or Dutchess of Hamilton. A big thanks for this video.

No footage of William tennant

I was in Oban High School at the time, and the old King George had finished her season for tourists to cruise. We could hear her blowing her horn all the way down the Sound of Kerrera, as she left for Greenock till next year's tourists arrived. She was a lovely ship, and had gone to Dunkirk during the WW2, to take the troops back to England, with the German army hard on their heels.

Great film of that period. Saw the Waverley calling in at Whitstable 3 weeks ago! Once went to Tighnabruach in 1960 on the Talisman from Gourock, when on a school holiday to Scotland from London. I can also recall seeing the trams in Glasgow. I was 11 at the time, but that trip has always stayed with me as the best day of the holiday! Coincidentally my first job when leaving school was in the Marine Dept of the old Board of Trade and my role was typing and sending out of these ships' annual passenger certificates renewals.

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Nice video but a shame that it doesn’t highlight place names, steamer names, years etc

Excellent video. On Oct. 1 we sailed from London out to Southend. Your video managed to capture the grandeur of a trip aboard.

My Uncle was a Chief Engineer for CAL MAC from the 60s up until the 80s Tommy Smith.

Wonderful memories of the 1940s and 50s on the Jeanie Deans and Waverley

What a wonderful tourist attraction this would be if there was daily steam paddleboat ferry plying this route from Easter to October. Funny to think that such services were once very common along the South Coast - some of the paddleboats even did day trips to France. Several even helped evacuate Dunkirk in 1940.

A lovely well put together Mini Cruise of the Solent Thank You

Really fantastic footage here, and great soundscape what mic(s) are you using? Sounds great. Love your angles, movements, views, 120 fps on the paddle wheel. Overall, it was very nice indeed. If you're back down this way, let me know. I'll get some drone work in.

An absolutely amazing video, brought me back to my childhood memories of holidays in Lochranza and Oban. I sailed to Campbeltown on the Duchess of Hamilton, sailed on the King George V from Oban, and once when she worked a season on the Clyde. Also on the Queen Mary 2nd and Waverley. I've sailed on Waverley recently and hope to sail on Queen Mary when she's restored. And hopefully on the Maid of the Loch too.