1860s warehouses at Speirs Wharf in the north of Glasgow. Positioned at the end of the Glasgow spur of the Forth and Clyde Canal, close to its junction with the of Monkland Canal, this was once an important inland port.
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.
@thisismyglasgow That's interesting! I suspect the stables pre-date the Swifts proper, which came in from about 1831 (Thomas Graham's original "Swift" was trialled in July 1830) and were a last-gasp attempt to head off the threat from the railways. However, passage boats of increasing speed had run on the F&C for years beforehand, so I'd guess that the Swifts and Hoolets inherited the infrastructure.
Canal House at Speirs Wharf on the Forth and Cylde Canal in Glasgow. Built around 1800 as offices for the Forth and Clyde Canal Company, it's thought to have been designed by David Hamilton.
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.
@thisismyglasgow thanks! I managed to get up earlier while the sun was still shining (got home in time to get my washing off the line before it got wet too!).
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.
@thisismyglasgow ooh, I sometimes walk as far as the new bridge, but have never crossed it. I'll have to head along and take a look at this - it looks gorgeous!
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.