Old Travel Blog Photograph Double Decker Passenger Bus Renfrew Ferry Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a Double Decker passenger bus going to Renfrew Ferry, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Renfrew is a town 6 miles west of Glasgow. The Renfrew Ferry connects to Yoker on the north bank of the Clyde, with the crossing taking a few minutes to make. Renfrew was also once served by a series of stations on a branch of the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway. The Renfrew Ferry was a dedicated bus terminus on the southern side. In recent years, the opening of Braehead Shopping Centre has seen most services divert via Ferry Village to Braehead Bus Station, and few services now stop at the ferry slipway, most stopping some 200m away. Services from FirstGroup and Arriva are operated to Paisley, Govan, Renfrew, Glasgow, and Glasgow Airport. I hope these might be of interest to folks with Scottish Ancestry or Roots in Scotland.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Passenger Bus Auchenback Barrhead Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a Passenger Bus going to Auchenback, via Blackbyres Road, in Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland. The name Barrhead comes from the agricultural term Barr meaning long ploughed furrows for cultivation of crops. Barrhead was formed when a series of small textile producing villages, Barrhead, Arthurlie, Grahamston and Gateside, gradually grew into one another to form one contiguous town.

James David Provins Graham was born in Barrhead on 8 February 1914. He was educated at Barrhead High School and Hyndland Secondary School, then studied Medicine at Glasgow University and graduated BSc in 1937. He received his doctorate in 1939. In the Second World War he was commissioned in March 1941 and later served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt at the rank of Captain, attached to the 8th Army. After the war he was promoted to Major, serving at the military hospital at Buchanan Castle in Drymen in Scotland. In 1946 he began lecturing in Pharmacology at Glasgow University as an ICI Research Fellow. In 1948 he moved to the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff as a Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology and Toxicology becoming a Professor in 1971. In 1969 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Alexander Bain, George Howard Bell, James Brough and Henry M Adam. He retired in 1979. He died on 16 May 1989.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Strathclyde Double Decker Passenger Bus Cumbernauld Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a Strathclyde Double Decker passenger bus going to Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Cumbernauld's history stretches to Roman times, with a settlement near the Antonine Wall, the furthest and most northerly boundary of the Roman Empire. After the Second World War Glasgow was suffering from chronic shortages of housing and poor housing conditions, particularly in areas such as the Gorbals. As a direct result Cumbernauld was designated a new town in 1955.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Strathclyde Double Decker Passenger Bus Cadder Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a Strathclyde Double Decker passenger bus going to Cadder in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow, Scotland. In antiquity, Cadder was the site of a Roman fort on the route of the Antonine Wall. Cadder House was a property held by the Stirling family for generations. Cadder is located five miles north of Glasgow city centre.



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Old Photograph Double Decker Passenger Bus In Castlemilk Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of a Double Decker passenger bus in Castlemilk, Glasgow, Scotland. Castlemilk lies to the South of the city adjacent to Rutherglen, Spittal and Fernhill areas, Croftfoot, Simshill and the separate village of Carmunnock. The area was developed by the Corporation as a peripheral housing scheme in the 1950s to accommodate 34,000 people from inner city slum areas such as the Gorbals.



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