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Participants in Glasgow's book festival, Aye Write, decorate a flight of stairs in the Mitchell Library.
The Mitchell Library was officially opened on 8 March 1910, and opened to the public the next day, 9 March.
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Format: Glass plate negative
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Andrew Barclay & Son, Kilmarnock loco and tracked vehicles by Caterpillar, Uddingston, all bound for East Africa Railway Co.
King George V docks Glasgow 1972.
For most of its life the vessel was called ‘Newshot’
It was built in 1943 by Fleming and Ferguson in Paisley for the Ministry of Supply, to load and unload vessels whose cargoes could not be handled by existing facilities. After the War it was sold to the Clyde Navigation Trust. It was taken out of service in the early 1970s, and the crane and machinery stripped out. The hull was subsequently used as a dumb barge by the North Sea oil industry at Invergordon
When the machinery was stripped out, the engines, and one of the two propulsion engines (see set) were retrieved by the Scottish Society for the Preservation of Historic Machinery. All the items were then stored at the old Transport Museum in Albert Drive, and then transferred to the SMM.
They are important as the prime movers of an example of a specialised ship type. This particular ship was built to resolve part of the problem of handling heavy cargoes on the Clyde as preparations were made for the D-day invasion of France. As ‘Newshot’ the vessel continued to be an important part of the cargo-handling equipment of the Port of Glasgow until the volume of trade declined in the late 1960s and early 1970s
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Home to bookgroup and one of my favourite buildings. It always makes me happy when I see it - lots of happy memories of studying there while at school and university, and lots of bookgroup cake and gossip! I could spend hours here. Oh, that's right, I usually do...
The library was established with a bequest from Stephen Mitchell, a wealthy tobacco manufacturer, whose company, Stephen Mitchell and Son, would become one of the constituent members of the Imperial Tobacco Company. It contains the largest public reference library in Europe, with 1,213,000 volumes. While composed mainly of reference material it also has a substantial lending facility which began in 2005. The original North Street building with its distinctive copper dome surmounted a bronze statue by Thomas Clapperton, entitled Literature, often referred to as Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, opened in 1911.