From Paisley to Glasgow

[Berlin-Bob]

Hi Trish,

My wife's Stephenson family came from Govan.

By the early part of the 19th century, Govan was rapidly losing its rural appearance and assuming the character of a town as other industries [...] established themselves.

but it was officially a village, until 1864 when it became a Burgh, and it was later annexed to Glasgow in 1912
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Govan

Bob

[daval57]

The Vulcan.

Quote from  http://www.bruzelius.info/nautica/Shipbuilding/Young(1867)_Ch3.html

"In 1818, Sir John Robison had an iron vessel (which he had designed in 1816) built for the passenger-traffic on the Forth and Clyde Canal, by Mr. Thomas Wilson, at Faskine, on the Monkland Canal, some six miles from Glasgow. She was called the "Vulcan,"

There are a number of hits for it on Google but apart from tech data, not much of interest.

[M.R. Dien]

Greenock is Southwest of Glasgow - not North.

According to the book by Aileen Smart

Three Mile House was later known as Halfway. The Great Road is the current Paisley Road West which was formed as a toll road in 1753. The present Halfway House post office near the corner of Mosspark Boulevard and the Cardonald Post Office near Moulin Road roughly correspond with the three mile and four mile stones. The original road from Glasgow to Paisley took a route a little  further to the north. From Halfway it passed in front of Moss heights crossed Berryknowes Road between Invergyle Drive and Wedderlea Drive  down past South Hillington farm rejoining the modern road near Barshaw Park

[sancti]

North west surely 

[daval57]

Exact geography was never my strong point but definitely North.

[M.R. Dien]

Spoken like true southsiders 

From Govan/Paisley area it is  more North - west(ish) 

[daval57]

Spoken like true southsiders 

From Govan/Paisley area it is  more North - west(ish) 

 
Just call me a Sassenach

[sancti]

Spoken like true southsiders 

From Govan/Paisley area it is  more North - west(ish) 

And from the centre of Glasgow it is even more north west...ish

[sancti]

They would probably have left from the Broomielaw

http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Residents/GettingAround/River/riverclydepontoonhistory.htm

And another photo from 1897

http://www.francisfrith.com/search/scotland/lanarkshire/glasgow/photos/glasgow_39800.htm

http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php?inum=TGSE00230