QE2 and John browns boatyard

[kitty732]

Still on family research....
Can anyone recommend any good web sites /books etc on the QE2 or about John Browns boatyard, Glasgow.
Or how I can go about getting names of the people who worked on the QE2/Browns?
There's a family tale that my grandmother's father worked for the QE2 during its build "something regarding drawings" but considering my family's financial status or education for that matter, I can't imagine that he was an architect. However, that said, it was always hinted that he had married below himself- to a family of female pipe smokers!

Thanks again to everyone who's answered my previous enquiries.

[Sharon]

a family of female pipe smokers!

a puff of pipe smokers

[peter]

Do you not mean JOHN BROWNS SHIPYARD !!! I used to get a slap if I said "Boat" I would be told "SHIP" laddie . We build fucking great big SHIPS!. Tiger, Hood, Hampshire, Ariadne, British Confidence, British Trooper, Empress of Japan. Vanguard, Barham, Repulse, Duke of York, Ceres, Australia, Southampton, Fiji, Bermuda, Eagle, Indefatigable, etc etc etc etc etc................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

[HollowHorn]

I think I've found your great grandmother:

[Govan Wumman]

My dad worked on it and went on the maiden voyages. I vividly recall going to the launching as a wee girl - and breaking my leg on the way back! Try http://www.qe2.org.uk/ and
http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/archives/exhibitions/qe2/qe2photogallery1/ for the great photos.

[Its_a_gamp]

Records for John Browns are held at Glasgow Uni archives
http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/archives/exhibitions/qe2/johnbrowncompanyclydebankltd/
Suggest you contact them directly

For "architect" use "engineering draughtsman" as someone who does drawings!

[onyirtodd]

There's a chap who allegedly 'rescued' the John Brown's photo archive from the basement of Clydebank Town Hall a few years back and had a couple of hundred CDs made. I still can't remember his name.

[Its_a_gamp]

There's a chap who allegedly 'rescued' the John Brown's photo archive from the basement of Clydebank Town Hall a few years back and had a couple of hundred CDs made. I still can't remember his name.

I would be interested in one of those CD's if you remember more let me know!

[onyirtodd]

There's a chap who allegedly 'rescued' the John Brown's photo archive from the basement of Clydebank Town Hall a few years back and had a couple of hundred CDs made. I still can't remember his name.

I would be interested in one of those CD's if you remember more let me know!

I've mentioned this here before and did some digging at the time. I even contacted the firm who produced the CDs in case they had a spare left lying - they didn't. They never knew who the original client was, only who'd asked them to produce the CDs and that, of course, was me

I think I'm right in saying he'd been an accountant at JB and the CDs were to be a parting gift to former employees.

[Its_a_gamp]

You mean you didn't make a copy for yourself

[onyirtodd]

You mean you didn't make a copy for yourself

I was too slow off my feet

[banjo]

kitty 732,welcome to clydebank website has a lot of ex broons workers on it,very helpfull they are too.