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.
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 gothic splendour of the University of Glasgow on Gilmorehill rising above the houses of the north of the city as seen from Speirs Wharf on the Forth and Clyde Canal early this morning.
Rockvilla House at the Applecross Canal Basin in the north of Glasgow. Originally, this was the end of the Forth and Clyde canal and the building served as a base for a coach service into Glasgow. From 1790 onwards it served as a house for the lock keeper/canal manager.
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'.
This bottle dates from some point prior to the takeover of the Scottish Cooperative Society by its English counterpart in the early 1970s, and was the type of milk bottle which was, at one time, provided to every child each day in primary school.
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.
An initial re-creation of a complete William Murray clay pipe from the Caledonian Pipe Works (1832-1861) in Garngad Hill in Glasgow I've been working based on fragments I recently found alongside the Forth and Clyde Canal in Maryhill.
I've still got some refining to do before it's finished, but as a 'first draft', I'm reasonably pleased with how this project is going so far.
Just some of the thousands of fragments of clay pipes which seem to have been unearthed by recent improvements to the walkway alongside the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow.