Riverside Museum

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The Transportation Museum (aka the Riverside Museum) is on the north bank of the Clyde River here in Glasgow. It's not far from our AirBnB in the West End; we take an Uber over on Saturday and spend several hours visiting the galleries. Like most museums and galleries run the by city, entry is free! Although you are encouraged to make a donation.

This area along the Clyde would have been the docklands — a port and shipbuilding center. All of that is gone; replaced with modern structures like this museum.

There's quite a bit of transportation history crammed into this museum. There's a steam engine (a big steam engine!), trams and buses, old cars and motorcycles, even horse drawn carriages. Glasgow, and the shipyards along the Clyde (long gone), made this an important port for immigration out to places like Canada, Australia, and the rest of the commonwealth. The Queen Mary (1933) was an important steam ship launched from here.

There's a lovely tall ship moored here, the Glennlee, There are some pictures at the end of the album taken from the Clyde Distillery (Scotch Wiskey) which is only a little ways up (east) the river.

There's a couple of interesting tram stories. One, there was a time when women started to work the trams (because the men were away to war). Oddly, they handled that fine. Two, there's the story about the spread of TB through spitting. Life was tough, spitting made it tougher. Many died.

There's a nice restaurant here but it's pretty busy; we have a late lunch. I have a "Haggis Sandwich". Haggis is that Scottish treat of oatmeal, offal and spices boiled in a sheep's stomach. The sandwich is an unusual way to serve it. Usually it's served as Haggis & Neeps (turnips).