2002

NS5768 : Glasgow canal mural

taken 21 years ago, 3 km from Partick, Glasgow, Scotland

This is 1 of 2 images, with title Glasgow canal mural in this square
Glasgow canal mural
Glasgow canal mural
This picture is intended to complement Mark Nightingale's photograph: NS5768 : Glasgow canal mural. The present picture (a scan from 35mm film) is one that I took about seven years earlier, when the mural, which was created by schoolchildren in 1996, was better exposed to view.

The mural is on the north-eastern bank of the canal (NS5768 : Glasgow Branch off Forth Clyde Canal), just to the north-west of Ruchill Bridge.

See NS5768 : Repainted mural by the canal for later changes.
Forth and Clyde Canal

The Forth and Clyde Canal links Bowling on the Firth of Clyde with Grangemouth on the Firth of Forth. It allowed goods to be transported between the east and west coasts, and to be exported from Glasgow to Europe or from Edinburgh to America, without taking the hazardous route round the north of Scotland or the longer route via the English Channel.

It is 56 kilometres (35 miles) long and has 39 locks, and the highest point is 47 metres (155 feet) above sea level. Originally there were 33 drawbridges, ten large aqueducts and 33 smaller ones.

It was designed by the engineer John Smeaton and opened in 1790, after over 20 years of planning and construction.

With time seagoing vessels became too large to pass through the locks, and competition from the railways in the 19th century led to it being more or less disused, and it was closed in 1963.

However it was reopened as a Millennium project in 2001, and linked to the Union Canal by the Falkirk Wheel.


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Geographical Context: Canals other tags: Mural Public Artwork Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Mural [3] Other Photos: · Repainted mural by the canal Title Clusters: · Glasgow canal mural [2] ·
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NS5768, 126 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Lairich Rig   (more nearby)
Date Taken
December 2002   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 1 October, 2012
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 5730 6840 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:53.2519N 4:16.9889W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 5728 6839
View Direction
East-northeast (about 67 degrees)
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