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Clydeside

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Clydeside 

a conurbation in Scotland along the lower course of the Clyde River. Population, 1,732,900 (1970), one-third of Scotland’s population. The main city is Glasgow; among the other cities are Paisley, Renfrew, Clydebank, Dumbarton, Port Glasgow, and Greenock. Clydeside is an important industrial region, famous for shipbuilding; machine building, metallurgy, and chemical industries are there. Clydeside’s economy is linked to its port.



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Thomas Renfrew, 63, worked on Clydeside as a painter from 1959 until 1973.
But it is also true that if Labour contrives to lose the latest Clydeside contest, to be held in Glasgow East on July 24 following the retirement of David Marshall this week, this could be the Glasgow byelection to eclipse even Pollok, Govan and Hillhead in the history books.
I would also like to state, as a Scotsman from Clydeside, I have noticed that a great deal of the workers employed in the shipyards on the Clyde are in fact Geordies.
 
 
 
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