Born to Alexander Beaton Ferguson, a plater's helper in the shipbuilding industry, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Hardie, Alex Ferguson was born at his grandmother's home on Shieldhall Road, Govan, on 31 December 1941, but grew up in a tenement at 667 Govan Road ( which has since been demolished ) where he lived with his parents as well as his younger brother Martin.

Her subsequent instructions from the " voice " directed her to take on Sheena Govan has her spiritual teacher, and became a spiritual teacher and new age author, best known as one of the founders of the Findhorn Foundation community.

Since opening, the centre has proved popular with consumers ( indeed it has been blamed for a downturn in the fortunes of shops in nearby Paisley, Govan and Renfrew, town centre.

Traditionally viewed as a working-class area, Govan has typically supported the Labour Party, but the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) has also been strong there.

A list of almost 3000 ships built at Govan has been collected in the ' Clydebuilt Database '.

The Ibrox Stadium, has a stand named for Govan with the stadium itself being 1 of only 27 football stadiums in Europe to be ranked by UEFA as a UEFA Category five stadium.

" Koons said they are now working with the German fabricator Arnold, outside of Frankfurt, to do an additional engineering study, and Govan says he has committed to spending half a million dollars for that study.

The Cup has been competed for since the 1886 – 87 season, when Fairfield Govan became the first winners of the competition.

In that article, Michael Govan, the director of LACMA who previously commissioned Irwin to “ design our experience ” of Dia: Beacon " said he believes the book “ has convinced more young people to become artists than the Velvet Underground has created rockers .”

Since then, Govan has become Heizer's greatest ally in the art world, raising $ 10 million from private donors to realize Levitated Mass and serving as a spokesman for the artist.

It is now part of BAE Systems Surface Ships, owned by BAE Systems, which has also operated the nearby Govan shipyard since 1999.

In 2009, Govan was replaced by Mitch Perry and North American touring has continued through 2010.

The Edrington Group Whisky Bond has grown over the years and is still a major employer in the area while the shipyards have all gone with the exception the now BAE Systems yards at Scotstoun and Govan.

Barnes has twins with ex-girlfriend Gloria Govan, who appeared in VH1's Basketball Wives and Basketball Wives: LA.

British Shipbuilders was a combination of the major shipbuilding companies including Cammell Laird, Govan Shipbuilders, Swan Hunter, and Yarrow Shipbuilders ; the nationalisation of the coal mines in 1947 created a coal board charged with running the coal industry commercially so as to be able to meet the interest payable on the bonds which the former mine owners ' shares had been converted into.

Govan Mbeki had come to the rural Eastern Cape as a political activist after earning two university degrees ; he urged his family to make the ANC their family, and of his children, Thabo Mbeki is the one who most clearly followed that instruction, joining the party at age 14 and devoting his life to it thereafter.

2001 did see the band with a stable line-up, achieved during the Aura sessions featuring Downes, Payne, guitarist Guthrie Govan and ex-Manfred Mann's Earth Band / The Firm / Uriah Heep / Gary Numan / AC / DC drummer Chris Slade ( who had first joined Asia in 1999, briefly ).

It bought the former London & Glasgow Engineering & Iron Shipbuilding Co's Middleton and Govan New shipyards in Govan and Mackie & Thomson's Govan Old yard, which had been owned by William Beardmore and Company.

Govan was a Labour seat ( although Sillars ' wife Margo MacDonald had won it for the SNP in a by-election previously, in 1973 ), but Sillars won a dramatic victory.

A committed and vocal supporter of Scottish independence, Margo MacDonald won the Glasgow Govan by-election, 1973, as a Scottish National Party ( SNP ) candidate ; Govan had until then been a Labour stronghold.

The cortege passed the BAE Systems Surface Ships yard in Govan, one of the Shipyards saved after the collapse of UCS, where hundreds of workers had gathered outside in tribute.

In February 1972 Heath's government relented and restructured the yards around two new companies: Govan Shipbuilders was established ( formerly Fairfields ) along with its subsidiary Scotstoun Marine Ltd ( formerly Connells ), Yarrow Shipbuilders had already withdrawn from UCS in April 1970 and regained its status as an independent company ( until 1977, when it was nationalised as part of British Shipbuilders, along with Govan Shipbuilders ).

Though now separated from Sheena Govan, whose relationship with Eileen Caddy had deteriorated, they continued with the practices she taught.

The SNP held three seats they had won in 1987, but lost Govan.

He had been born in Govan in 1858, and he had entered Fairfield as an apprentice in 1873.

Until 1841 the missionaries had devoted themselves almost entirely to evangelistic work ; in that year the Lovedale Missionary Institute was founded by Edward Govan, who, save for brief intervals, continued at its head until 1870.

" One of the questions I had to ask myself, being from Govan, was: ' Is this offensive to where I grew up?

The company still had a large patronage on the former Govan Minibus Company routes and exploited this by running many services in competition with First Glasgow and Arriva.

The BCCI had it origins in a meeting in February 1927 at the Roshanara Club in Delhi between Arthur Gilligan, the captain of the visiting MCC team, De Mello, Grant Govan and the Maharaja of Patiala.

Payne and Geoff Downes continued together as Asia for 15 years, with several line-ups around them, until they stuck with Guthrie Govan ( guitar ) and Chris Slade ( drums ) in 1999.

The company was formed in 1972 by way of a purchase of the former Fairfield Shipyard in Govan from Sir Robert Smith, Liquidator of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders ( UCS ), itself a product of the amalgamation of several Clydeside yards ; Fairfields, Alex Stephens, Charles Connell and Company, Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd. and John Browns.

Govan is served by community Radio Station Sunny Govan broadcasting on 103. 5FM to the city of Glasgow and surrounding districts, discussing local issues and providing advice, and with diverse musical output covering soul, hip-hop and reggae.

This included a weekly comic strip Captain Clyde, an unemployed superhero based in Glasgow, for The Govan Press, a local newspaper, plus various issues of DC Thomson's Starblazer, a science fiction version of that company's Commando title.

Originally part of the Burgh of Govan in Renfrewshire, most of the ancient parish was annexed by the City of Glasgow in 1912, but it retains a distinct local identity.

Kværner of Norway, as part of a planned development of a large international shipbuilding group, took over Govan.

Despite a feeling of hurt and rejection over the " Govan Case ", George MacLeod remained one of the highest profile figures in the Church of Scotland.

* Isa Nesbitt Anna Welsh ( older ) & Ann-Louise Ross ( younger ): Rab's mother, a typical Govan housewife, described as being so self-conscious she would put a dish-towel over her knees while watching television because she thought Trevor McDonald could see up her skirt.

In 1900, Beardmore took over the shipyard of Robert Napier in Govan, a logical diversification from the company's core steel forgings business.

* 1987 – Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years of a life sentence for terrorism and treason.

Govan Mbeki was released from custody after serving 24 years in the Robben Island prison on 5 November 1987.

With Morris Pollok as its first Provost, the Burgh and its Commissioners ensured that during the next 48 years Govan became a well-equipped, modern town.

In 1850 Govan was elected deputy sheriff of Sacramento, and two years later he returned to Mississippi and took up work as a planter.