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Post by tiddles on Sept 1, 2012 14:05:41 GMT 1
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Post by samfregreenock on Sept 1, 2012 14:34:27 GMT 1
FFS how many maritime museums can the Clyde support.
There's wan at Braeheid, wan at Irvine and wan at the new Transport museum.
There isnae enough folk to go roon, to visit these places.
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Post by tiddles on Sept 1, 2012 14:46:45 GMT 1
Actually I have in mind something like an industrial museum that would celebrate the many industries of the town from the days of herring fish right up to IBM with shipbuilding and sugar refining featuring large.
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Post by samfregreenock on Sept 1, 2012 16:40:23 GMT 1
Actually I have in mind something like an industrial museum that would celebrate the many industries of the town from the days of herring fish right up to IBM with shipbuilding and sugar refining featuring large. Never gonnae happen - FFS this is inverclyde, sensible ideas and such never happen |
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Post by si67 on Sept 2, 2012 9:30:23 GMT 1
I think what Tiddles suggests is what I'd like to see. As an imported citizen of Inverclyde with little knowledge, the only history that is obvious is that of the ship yards which seems to be what people talk about. And most of that is about the demise.
I had to make a concerted effort to find any other information and only recently found out about the herring fishing!
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Post by neartic on Sept 2, 2012 12:35:25 GMT 1
they still do herring fishing here the council do it all they get is red herrings
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Post by tiddles on Sept 2, 2012 13:45:44 GMT 1
They're more like a bunch of haddies!
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Post by myfindhorn on Sept 2, 2012 17:30:05 GMT 1
it would be great to have a working museum where people can participate and kids can dress up in the clothes of another century and try to do the work of a child 100 years ago
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Post by linda wallace on Sept 2, 2012 17:55:05 GMT 1
yea i think tidds and horn's ideas would be great
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Post by samfregreenock on Sept 3, 2012 12:36:20 GMT 1
it would be great to have a working museum where people can participate and kids can dress up in the clothes of another century and try to do the work of a child 100 years ago This is Greenock, the adults are still wearing clothes fashionable in the 1970s/80s - shell-suits, fitba-taps, fat-wummin in leggings, rain-mates. Greenock is a living museum |
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Post by myfindhorn on Sept 3, 2012 19:53:55 GMT 1
Sam,people here are not that fashion conscious, but the most are clean and tidy and rain-mates do less harm than brollies and both hands are free. So would that make most of Greenock the walking museum
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Post by samfregreenock on Sept 3, 2012 20:52:19 GMT 1
Sam,people here are not that fashion conscious, but the most are clean and tidy and rain-mates do less harm than brollies and both hands are free. So would that make most of Greenock the walking museum Whoooooooooooooooooooooosh! |
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Post by rod2mc on Sept 4, 2012 11:00:40 GMT 1
Maritime museum? 20 yrs too late..... fi they had done that before everyone else built one then yes, but there's loads as Sam said, it just wouldnt justify the cost
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Post by tiddles on Sept 4, 2012 13:41:10 GMT 1
I think we are talking more of a, 'folk museum' of the type seen in York and elsewhere. ALL our industries would feature as well as how people lived.
However, as you say, it is too late. Riverside Inverclyde and their likes have spent the money on shite like, 'sculptures' and 'street furnishings' and of course truckloads of pies for fatty Wilson.
The past is another country.
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