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

by Duncan Graham (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: In Pinn; 2Rev Ed edition (11 April 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1903238714
  • ISBN-13: 978-1903238714
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 626,272 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The 1950s were 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 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 frequently hilarious memoir of his days as a student purser aboard The Talisman, Prince Edward and the Caledonia is filled with larger-than-life characters including dashing skippers who raced for the best berths, frustrated Chief Engineers, wheeler-dealer stewards and ladies with more than a mere day trip on their mind! In this new revised paperback edition of Graham's best-selling memoir, the last days of steaming on the Clyde are recounted 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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