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Union Canal

It looks rather as if the canal is in a cutting here, but in fact the canal pre-dates the banks on either side. The banks are bings of spent shale from the Philpstoun oil works which operated on the north side of the canal from 1883 until 1931. A tramway carried the waste material across the canal on a bridge to the large bing on the south (left in this view).