Lambhill Stables on the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow. This was one of four stables built to the same classical design (similar to that used for Canal House at Speirs Wharf) along the canal in the early 1800s. These provided fresh horses at regular intervals for Swifts (fast passenger boats travellig the length of the canal). The other similar stables were at Shirva, Crainmarloch and Easter Cadder near Kirkintilloch.
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 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.
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.
The Pinkston Basin in the North of Glasgow. At one time this formed the junction between the Forth and Clyde Canal (completed 1792) and the Monkland Canal (completed in 1794). The Monkland Canal has now mostly been filled in and replaced by the M8 motorway.
The Nolly Brig over the Forth and Clyde Canal by Firhill Stadium in Glasgow, with its mural inspired by Charles Rennie MacKintosh's 1922 water colour called Sailing Ships. The bridge was built with European Regional Development Fund (from the EU) and was opened in 1990. The mural was added in 2019 by Art Pistol Projects.
Late 19th Century brick buildings on the banks of the Forth and Clyde canal in Ruchill.
It's great to see the one in the background is currently being refurbished as it had been in a rather poor state of repair for a while now and I'd often wondered if it would eventually be demolished.
A Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society 1/4 pint glass milk bottle found today alongside the Forth and Clyde Canal in Maryhill. It is embossed with the text 'The Property of SCWS Loaned on Deposit'.
Does anyone know what these tiles are about? The left one is from the Glasgow Botanic Gardens, the one on the right is from beside the Forth and Clyde Canal in Anniesland. Has anyone seen any other similar tiles around the city?
Love the newest tiling added to the Stockingfield Bridge in Glasgow, especially this rainbow. These tiles have been made and installed by Make It Glasgow.
As this markers shows, the Forth and Clyde Canal drops an impressive 156 feet between Maryhill in Glasgow and Bowling, the point about ten miles away where the it meets the sea. This is roughtly the same vertical drop as Niagara Falls. This descent is achieved by the use of twenty separate locks.