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"More steam, MacPhail!"

https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/55270044396/in/photostream/lightbox/

The Maryhill, a working, scale replica of the classic Clyde Puffer, in the Kirky Marina. In the industrail era many of these ships, made famous in Neil Munro's book, and the 1970s TV adaptation (still much loved here), were built and launched near this spot

#Kirkintilloch #Glasgow #ForthAndClydeCanal #boat #bateau #photography #photographie #TheMaryhill #ClydePuffer #VitalSpark #ParaHandy #Scotland #Ecosse

"More steam, MacPhail!"

https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/55270044396/in/photostream/lightbox/

The Maryhill, a working, scale replica of the classic Clyde Puffer, in the Kirky Marina. In the industrail era many of these ships, made famous in Neil Munro's book, and the 1970s TV adaptation (still much loved here), were built and launched near this spot

#Kirkintilloch #Glasgow #ForthAndClydeCanal #boat #bateau #photography #photographie #TheMaryhill #ClydePuffer #VitalSpark #ParaHandy #Scotland #Ecosse

"More steam, MacPhail!"

https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/55270044396/in/photostream/lightbox/

The Maryhill, a working, scale replica of the classic Clyde Puffer, in the Kirky Marina. In the industrail era many of these ships, made famous in Neil Munro's book, and the 1970s TV adaptation (still much loved here), were built and launched near this spot

#Kirkintilloch #Glasgow #ForthAndClydeCanal #boat #bateau #photography #photographie #TheMaryhill #ClydePuffer #VitalSpark #ParaHandy #Scotland #Ecosse

"More steam, MacPhail!"

https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/55270044396/in/photostream/lightbox/

The Maryhill, a working, scale replica of the classic Clyde Puffer, in the Kirky Marina. In the industrail era many of these ships, made famous in Neil Munro's book, and the 1970s TV adaptation (still much loved here), were built and launched near this spot

#Kirkintilloch #Glasgow #ForthAndClydeCanal #boat #bateau #photography #photographie #TheMaryhill #ClydePuffer #VitalSpark #ParaHandy #Scotland #Ecosse

"More steam, MacPhail!"

https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/55270044396/in/photostream/lightbox/

The Maryhill, a working, scale replica of the classic Clyde Puffer, in the Kirky Marina. In the industrail era many of these ships, made famous in Neil Munro's book, and the 1970s TV adaptation (still much loved here), were built and launched near this spot

#Kirkintilloch #Glasgow #ForthAndClydeCanal #boat #bateau #photography #photographie #TheMaryhill #ClydePuffer #VitalSpark #ParaHandy #Scotland #Ecosse

“There iss not a port I am not acquent with from the Tail of the Bank to Cairndow, where they keep the two New Years”

—Captain Para Handy, in “A Lost Man” by Neil Munro (1863–1930)

https://birlinn.co.uk/product/para-handy-2/

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #humour #ParaHandy #Highlands #Hebrides