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Sunset on the Clyde: The Last Summers on the Water (Paperback)

by Duncan Graham (Author)
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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Neil Wilson Publishing; New Ed edition (28 Jul 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1897784449
  • ISBN-13: 978-1897784440
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,368,671 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The 1950s was the heyday of the Clyde pleasure-steamer when hordes of ordinary folk went "doon the watter" to Dunoon, Largs and Millport to the strains of accordian and fiddle. Others went with full suitcases to Rothesay for the fair, while the well-to-do filled brass-bound trunks and headed for the boarding houses of Brodick and Whiting Bay. The resort piers were hives of activity and the crack was good as the steamers' arrival heralded the main talking point of the day. Duncan Graham's memoir of his days as a student purser aboard "The Talisman", "Prince Edward" and the "Caledonia" is filled with characters such as the dashing skippers who raced for the best berths, the frustrated chief engineers, the wheeler-dealer stewards and the ladies with more than a mere day trip on their minds. This biography recounts the last days of the steamers on the Clyde as they really were.

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5.0 out of 5 stars a feast of nostalgia, 22 Jan 2000
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This review is from: Sunset on the Clyde: The Last Summers on the Water (Hardcover)
Duncan Graham's work fills a gap in the bookshelves of the lover of Clyde Steamers, and provides an evocative picture of the Clyde steamer fleet and the character that manned it in the Indian Summer before cars and foreign holidays took the doon the watter faithful further afield. His personal account of life on the Clyde in the transitional fleet of the fifties is a must for any lover of ships and the sea,and is fleshed out by delicious pen portraits of the crews which manned them. (My opinions are not coloured by the nagginng suspicion that Mr Graham was the teacher who put a halt to my career as a professional truant in the 1960's)
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