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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,Scotland,UK,United Kingdom,time,town clock,public clock,clocktower,tower,blue,white,timepiece,historic,building,at night,night,evening,nightshot,town,centre,customs,HMRC,taxes,taxation,import duty,import,importation,duty,Inverclyde,Greenock,Inverclyde Council,history,Custom House Quay Ferry Terminal,fog light,fog bell,Rankin & Blackmores Eagle Foundry,river Clyde,PA15
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AR75KJ - Beacon (19th Century), Clock Tower (19th Century), Drinking Fountain (19th Century)
Site Name Greenock, Custom House Quay, Clock Tower
Classification Beacon (19th Century), Clock Tower (19th Century), Drinking Fountain (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Greenock Harbour
Harbour Light
Steamboat Quay
Greenock 1
Canmore ID 199871
Site Number NS27NE 154
NGR NS 28330 76237
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/199871
The Beacon clock tower at Customhouse Quay in Greenock, designed by William Clark, marine artist. It has a weather vane, a fog bell, a fog light and clock. The lower section is interesting and contains an amazing amount of detail.
The drinking fountain has a beautiful lion's head and crest with the words God Speed - very apt considering many there would be going on a journey, as well as being part of Greenock's own motto. There was also a letter box.
The Beacon itself was made at Rankin & Blackmore's Eagle Foundry in Greenock (Baker Street). More info at http://thegreenockian.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-beacon-clock-tower-and-so-much-more.html
Custom House Quay, Greenock,Inverclyde, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,Scotland,UK,United Kingdom,time,town clock,public clock,clocktower,tower,blue,white,timepiece,historic,building,at night,night,evening,nightshot,town,centre,customs,HMRC,taxes,taxation,import duty,import,importation,duty,Inverclyde,Greenock,Inverclyde Council,history,Custom House Quay Ferry Terminal,fog light,fog bell,Rankin & Blackmores Eagle Foundry
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AR75P7 - Beacon (19th Century), Clock Tower (19th Century), Drinking Fountain (19th Century)
Site Name Greenock, Custom House Quay, Clock Tower
Classification Beacon (19th Century), Clock Tower (19th Century), Drinking Fountain (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Greenock Harbour
Harbour Light
Steamboat Quay
Greenock 1
Canmore ID 199871
Site Number NS27NE 154
NGR NS 28330 76237
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/199871
The Beacon clock tower at Customhouse Quay in Greenock, designed by William Clark, marine artist. It has a weather vane, a fog bell, a fog light and clock. The lower section is interesting and contains an amazing amount of detail.
The drinking fountain has a beautiful lion's head and crest with the words God Speed - very apt considering many there would be going on a journey, as well as being part of Greenock's own motto. There was also a letter box.
The Beacon itself was made at Rankin & Blackmore's Eagle Foundry in Greenock (Baker Street). More info at http://thegreenockian.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-beacon-clock-tower-and-so-much-more.html
Custom House Quay, Greenock,Inverclyde, Scotland, UK
Description
Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,Scotland,UK,United Kingdom,time,town clock,public clock,clocktower,tower,blue,white,timepiece,historic,building,at night,night,evening,nightshot,town,centre,customs,HMRC,taxes,taxation,import duty,import,importation,duty,Inverclyde,Greenock,Inverclyde Council,history,Custom House Quay Ferry Terminal,fog light,fog bell,Rankin & Blackmores Eagle Foundry,Beacon,Drinking Fountain
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AR75PN - Beacon (19th Century), Clock Tower (19th Century), Drinking Fountain (19th Century)
Site Name Greenock, Custom House Quay, Clock Tower
Classification Beacon (19th Century), Clock Tower (19th Century), Drinking Fountain (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Greenock Harbour
Harbour Light
Steamboat Quay
Greenock 1
Canmore ID 199871
Site Number NS27NE 154
NGR NS 28330 76237
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/199871
The Beacon clock tower at Customhouse Quay in Greenock, designed by William Clark, marine artist. It has a weather vane, a fog bell, a fog light and clock. The lower section is interesting and contains an amazing amount of detail.
The drinking fountain has a beautiful lion's head and crest with the words God Speed - very apt considering many there would be going on a journey, as well as being part of Greenock's own motto. There was also a letter box.
The Beacon itself was made at Rankin & Blackmore's Eagle Foundry in Greenock (Baker Street). More info at http://thegreenockian.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-beacon-clock-tower-and-so-much-more.html
Custom House Quay, Greenock,Inverclyde, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Merchant,Greenock,Scotland,UK,grave,burial,Inverkip street,No,94,noted,famous,1791,old,ancient,stone,weather worn,weather-worn,graves,Bob,Robert,Bannatyne,Bannatynes,Merchants,co,company,No94,people,business,businessman,businessmen,of,town,grves,gravestone,gravestones,memorial
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE3E2 - . An on-location image from Inverkip street cemetery, Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland, UK in 2019, useful both for the specific subject shown and for the evidence it retains about local identity, design, use and everyday life. The location is represented through Grave 1791 of Robert Bannatyne, Merchant, Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland, UK, Inverkip street cemetery. The photograph also reflects consumer retail, changing streetscape, customer footfall, community identity, collective memory, changing land use, commercial frontage, high-street commerce, Armistice heritage, military commemoration, memorial inscription, shopfront economy, town-centre economy, and memorial culture. From a 2025-onward perspective, the scene also connects with local history, public commemoration and the value of memorials as both historic evidence and places of reflection. In the mid-2020s, town-centre regeneration and changing footfall keep the subject current, particularly through the shift toward mixed retail, leisure, service and residential centres. Looking back from the mid-2020s, the photograph anchors period details that may disappear after redevelopment or refurbishment as seen at Inverkip street cemetery, Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland, UK. The photograph additionally reflects independent trading, industrial-community remembrance, community remembrance, place identity, commercial streetscape, retail vacancy, historic context, and social history. References to Scotland, Robert, Inverclyde, Merchant, and Grave help fix the photograph to its own subject and period rather than reducing it to a generic view. The surrounding context at Inverkip street cemetery, Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland, UK matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The frame retains part of the area's social history for future local research.
Inverkip street cemetery, Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,scotland,UK,John,Galt,Inverclyde,grave,author,writer,book,books,history,resting,place,memorial,stone,cemetery,graveyard,Inverkip Street Cemetery,Greenock,Inverkip Street,Inverkip St,wall,famous,1,Bruce Street,PA15 4LL,PA15,written,authors,character,John Galt House,Cemetery,historic
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE43G - John Galt ( 2 May 1779 “ 11 April 1839) was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator. Galt has been called the first political novelist in the English language, due to being the first novelist to deal with issues of the Industrial Revolution.
Galt was the first superintendent of the Canada Company (1826-1829). The company had been formed to populate a part of what is now Southern Ontario (then known as Upper Canada) in the first half of the 19th century
it was later called the most important single attempt at settlement in Canadian history.
In 1829, Galt was recalled to Great Britain for mismanagement of the Canada Company (particularly incompetent bookkeeping), and was later jailed for failing to pay his son's tuition. Galt's Autobiography, published in London in 1833, includes a discussion of his life and work in Upper Canada
In Greenock, John Galt is commemorated by the John Galt memorial fountain on the Esplanade, and by a plaque at the old cemetery where he is buried. Sheltered housing (for seniors) built next to the cemetery in 1988, on the site of the old Greenock Royal Infirmary, is named John Galt House in his honour
Inverkip Street Cemetery, 1 Bruce St, Greenock,Inverclyde, scotland, UK, PA15 4LL
