left hand down a bit

Last of the regular ferries crossing the River Clyde of which there were many moving daily thousands of workers between docks and shipyards and the industrial towns which lined this river 
This little aluminium passenger ferry has just crossed from Yoker on the north bank to Renfrew on the south still using the  wide cobbled slipways not much to look at but communities on both sides wanted continuation of the link

It follows centuries  of crossings here with the first steam single chain ferry 1868 superseded by a double chain ferry in 1897... the chain trenches are still on the slipways.
It ecame a car ferry crossing with its heyday in the 1940 and 50s then steady decline with the opening of Clyde Tunnel and Kingston Bridge upstream in Glasgow and the Erskine Bridge downstream