The River Clyde, the wonderful Clyde

On Tuesday, we mentioned that we're investigating a range of places on Clydeside which schools parties might also visit when they come to see the exhibition.

With George Wyllie's Straw Locomotive and Paper Boat both having hung from the Finnieston Crane, the Titan cranes of the Clyde are an image which will always bring his work to mind.

It's on that Finnieston Crane that the Big Clyde Question Mark now hangs.

There are only four of these monster cranes left on the Clyde, and the one in today's photograph is in Clydebank. It is now a heritage centre where school parties can learn about shipbuilding on the Clyde and so this morning, we paid a short visit and took the lift to the top of the 150ft structure.

For our young paper boat builders, a visit to it would certainly help them to see what once was, what is and what might be. Photographs inside the visitor centre show a once thriving, massive yard where hundreds of real ships were build.

Views from the top of the crane were spectacular today. The view of the crane itself is also quite a spectacle.

Although public access has now closed until next spring, the Crane remains open to school parties.

How skilled, how precise, how talented must have been its builders, and the men who worked in and around it, day-in day-out, whatever the season.