ONE of Inverclyde's most recognisable landmarks has been given some much-needed TLC thanks to a group of environmental trainees.
The Inverclyde Community Development Trust's environmental team took their scrapers and brushes to the iconic light buoy on the Greenock Esplanade earlier this week.
A spokesperson for the Trust said: "Our trainees have scraped it all back, we've applied the undercoat, and weather permitting, we'll be painting the bouy later this week.
"Projects like these are great for our trainees, because it allows our supervisor Pat to teach new skills to the team."
The landmark was originally the Rosneath Patch buoy and was placed in the river by the Clyde Lighthouses Trust in 1880.
A plaque advises it was 'the first flashing buoy to be established to aid navigation'.
The engineers mentioned on the plaque, David and Thomas Stevenson, were members of the famous family of lighthouse builders who had a long connection with the CLT.
The Rosneath Patch buoy was moved to Greenock when the Little Cumbrae lighthouse was de-manned and automated in 1977.
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