A little look at Greenock, Scotland. Shipbuilding legacies and building new community.
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- Join me for another slow travel adventure through the history and present of Greenock in Scotland. Just 40 minutes by train from Glasgow but a world apart.
Discover the shipbuilding legacy and the community group taking the lead in preserving and passing on skills to create new futures for the area. Find the place where new friendships are built across genders, generations and more while opening opportunities for all. A place to meet, make, grow & share.
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Your videos are really, really good and deserve a wider audience. I was part of the IBM monopsony, and the issue there was that most people (like me) were not local or even Scottish. There was no real connection to the place, and when the company went most of the staff went with it.
Thanks for the compliments, that means a lot. Great to hear from someone that was there for IBM too. Don’t know when the last time you were here was but there’s now nothing left where IBM used to be.
The comment regarding IBM Greenock is interesting, I worked in Spango Valley from 1973 till I transferred to IBM in Havant in 1983, during that time a significant proportion of the employees were both Scots and Greenockians.
It’s very sad to see that the once thriving plant is now derelict
In the mid 90s, IBM started their EMEA support center there. Around the same time, manufacturing was wound down. This had the effect that a lot of people were "foreigners" supporting their respective geographies. Many of them settled and many are still there today.
They just don't work for IBM anymore 😀
AZOGUERO here I started at dock. It was a bus stop it was thunder and lightening. Men never discussed it. I started azoguero career here about. Purser on Cowal transporting sheep. Today I weep at emptiness o river. Esplanade empty. Carpark is called the bullring . 10
Railway halts. Adeu senyor.
There’s some positive things happening. It’s an area worth keeping an eye on.
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Ma! At ‘has watt’ I learned Spanish conversing at bus stop wth. Flamenco artists. Later in Mexico I published. Book re quicksilver. All teaching was Latin. 4 years I studio d Gaeli c In Sligo, useless. to me. In Scotia. Book concerns shipping La Mineria de Azogue el Mexico Colonial. Saludos
Love it. Same shipbuilding yard had huge presence in Sandy Point, NS all back in the day.
Interesting, I didn’t know that. Just as I’d started researching some of the links between Inverclyde and NS. I’ll have to look into that further, thanks 😊
My family is from greenock Scotland. I’ve heard stories of them being ship builders. Last name Tierney which is typically Irish. Couldn’t find much more info on them. Would love to learn more.
There’s strong connections between the Strathclyde region of Scotland and Ireland, particularly Ulster, so that’s not surprising. The local archives hold a lot of family information they may be able to help trace your family history: www.inverclyde.gov.uk/community-life-and-leisure/heritage-services/collections/archives/archives-services