A cracking 1960 aerial view of the old Queen's and Prince's Docks on the bustling River Clyde. The three Govan Graving Docks are also in action, bottom.

There's ships almost as far as the eye can see, or at least up to the George V Bridge, and the old Kingston Dock, today the site of flats. Back then, you really could 'come up the Clyde on a banana boat'. You could also wander down to the docks and climb aboard for such exotic destinations as Australia, Canada, India, America, or Belfast!

The Queen's Dock, left, opened to shipping in 1880. The driving force behind the scheme was George Reith, then the top dog at the Clyde Navigation Trust. Known as 'the bossiest man in Glasgow', Reith's grandson, John, would go on to become the first Director General of the BBC, whose new studio complex now sits on the south bank of the Clyde.

The Queen's Docks were filled in, in 1977, using all the beautiful cut and dressed red sandstone from the demolition of the city's St Enoch Station and Hotel, to create a solid platform for the building of the SECC.

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