Showing posts with label mapping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mapping. Show all posts

6.4.12

Some Iconic Sites of Govan

Riverside Museum viewed across the Clyde from Govan - photo courtesy of Tom Manley
Govan Subway
Jimmy Stringfellow - leader of the Govan Showpeople. Photo courtesy of Tom Manley
Sky turning tricks at Govan Cross
Govan Graving Docks (in 1900 the largest dry dock in the world and constructed from hand carved granite) - photo courtesy of Tom Manley

Clyde flotsam trapped at Govan Riverside - we are told that there is money to be made from salvaging the likes of 1970s vintage bicycles from such History Middens

12.1.12

Mapping Govan

Notes from Matt Baker's sketchbook after chatting with folk in Govan on Thurs 12 Jan about how we might to connect/link up cultural organisations, regeneration organisations, artists, and other good folk in and around Govan to deveop ideas/projects etc. Ideally, connectivity should be simple – but our maps thus far are fairly complex...