Arts and Crafts style Lock keepers' houses at Bowling on the Forth and Clyde Canal. Designed by Burnet, Son and Campbell, and built in 1896, they are the only Arts and Crafts style lock keepers cottages on the canal.
The entrance to the Forth and Clyde Canal at Bowling. Designed by James Smeaton, this was the world's first sea-to-sea canal designed to shorten navigation times. Work began on it in 1768, but it wasn't finished until 1790. To mark its opening, a barrel of water was carried from the Firth of Forth and was emptied into the Firth of Clyde.
Today at the Bowling boat basin, which connects the Forth and Clyde Canal to the sea. This made it an important port in the late 1700s and early 1800s as it was here that goods travelling into and out of Glasgow were transfered between smaller canal vessels and larger sea-going ones.
The Temple Bridge carrying Bearsden Road over the Forth and Clyde Canal in the west of Glasgow. Built in 1932 by William Arrol and Co Ltd and T. Somers, it was designed as a bascule bridge, with a massive counterweight hidden the right hand sandstone support, to allow it to lift up to let boat traffic pass undernearth.
After hearing about it from @thisismyglasgow, I made my own way up to Stockingfield Junction on the canal today to see the new sculpture up there. I've been along there before, not that long ago, so I'm very surprised I haven't spotted it before, but it's rather fab. It's apparently a Beithir and is kin to the Kelpies at Falkirk.
There's also a (world) egg in its mouth, representing hope, but the light wasn't right to get a picture of that.
The beautiful World Egg hidden inside the mouth of Bella the Beithir, a sculpture by Nichol Wheatley at the Stockingfield Junction on the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow. The Beithir is a lightening serpent most commmonly seen on summer evenings during thunderstorms. The world egg is carried inside her mouth is a symbol of hope. You have to get right up close and peer between Bella's teeth to be able to see it.
The magnificent head of Bella the Beithir at Stockingfield Junction on the Forth and Clyde Canal in the north of Glasgow. Created by Nichol Wheatley, when finished Bella will be 121 metres long as her body weaves through the hill above the Stockingfield Bridge. Commissioned by Scottish Canals, it's a companion piece to the Kelpies in Falkirk as both feature Scottish mythological beasts associated with water.
The newest instance of the Glasgow Coat of Arms on the snout of the Beithir by Nichol Wheatley which was recently unveiled at the Stockingfield Bridge on the Forth and Clyde Canal.
It's interesting to see how much David Galbraith's art installation at the Stockingfield Bridge on the Forth and Clyde Canal has changed already. It represents nature reclaming the city's idustrial past, and so far nature seems to be doing a very good job of it!
Completing my recent series of Glasgow tower blocks against a sunrise is this shot along the Forth and Clyde Canal looking towards the Collina Street High Flats, known to many as Osprey Heights, the fictional home of Still Game's Jack and Victor.
End of the Line: This swing bridge was built across the Forth and Clyde Canal at Port Dundas in Glasgow around 1890 to allow trains on the Caledonian Railway's Port Dundas line to cross it and so serve potential industrial freight customers at Speirs Wharf and Port Dundas itself.
Within a few decades of the bridge being built, railway lines like this one would outcompete canals as a means of freight transport, and in the 1960s the canal was finally closed.
By the 1980s this railway line, too, had closed as the industrial businesses it once served also disappeared.
Much of the canal has now been re-opened, but the bridge is pretty much all that's left of this particular railway line.
The rusting hull of an old canal boat recovered from the bottom of the Port Dundas Basin on the Forth and Clyde Canal in the north of Glasgow and placed on a platform beside the canal.
The Bowling Boat Basin on the Firth of Clyde which forms the western end of the Forth and Clyde Canal.
Opened in 1790, this was the world's first sea-to-sea canal designed specifically to shorten shipping routes, and paving the way for the likes of the Panama and Suez Canals.
The large white building at the right hand side of the photo is the former Customs House from where movements into the canal were controlled.
This unassuming pool of water just off the Maryhill Locks on the Forth and Clyde Canal is the Kelvin Dock. It was constructed in 1789 to build and repair canal boats and is the oldest boat yard on the canal.
By the 1850s, it was owned by Swan and Co, and in 1857, the very first of the legendary Clyde Puffers, which plied their trade up and down the west coast of Scotland and were made famous by Neil Munro's Para Handy books, was built here.
In the 1940s, landing craft for the D-Day Normandy Landings were built here. The boat yard finaly closed in the 1960s.
Last butterflies of summer filling up on necter today alongside the Forth and Clyde Canal in Maryhill before finding somewhere to hibernate for the winter.
The Forth and Clyde Canal in the north of Glasgow. Designed by John Smeaton and constructed between 1768 and 1790, it allowed goods and ships to move from the North Sea to the North Atlantic without having the pass through the treacherous waters along the North of Scotland. It was the world's first man-made sea-to-sea canal, making it the forerunner of canals like the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal.
This an interesting little marker set into the stonework of the Forth and Clyde Canal opposite The Whisky Bond in the north of Glasgow. It seems to be linked to a public art project called Displacement carried out there in July 2015.