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Forth and Clyde Canal.
Situated between Falkirk and Grangemouth the canal was opened in 1790 and crossing central Scotland the Forth and Clyde Canal provided a route for seagoing vessels at what is the narrowest point of the Scottish Lowlands for the Firth of Forth and Firth of Clyde.
Running from the River Carron at Grangemouth to the River Clyde at Bowling the 35 mile (56 km) canal had a basin of considerable importance at Port Dundas in Glasgow.
With the advent of the increased size of seagoing vessels the canal proved inadequate as these vessels could not pass through and coupled with the arrival of the railway age these factors all contributed to the demise of the usefulness of the canal.
Due to increasing maintenance costs of the bridges that spanned the canal which by this time exceeded the revenue that was raised by the usage of the canal it was closed in the early 1960’s.
Political failure and financial considerations were not forthcoming and this added to the decline of the canal and the route that ran through Grangemouth was in 1967 drained and backfilled to allow for the creation of a carriageway to cater for the needs of port traffic.
Fortunately though in more recent years common sense prevailed which has seen the utility of the canal regenerated and today is available for leisure.
It is not uncommon to see houseboats and other vessels on the canal.
Falkirk, Scotland.
unusual mural near the Port Dundas spur of the Forth & Clyde Canal. I saw someone creating this a week or two back but didn't get a good shot then. I'm shooting through a fence here so not much chance at a proper composition. Anyway I'm calling it "Glitched" because it reminds me of the cool "streets" in the short-lived Glitch game I helped alpha-test recently. Still missing my Bluto character...
A great reward for the 'not-so-early' riser. Sunrise is around 7am in Glasgow at the moment. I only just caught the colour - it was gone within about 30 seconds of this shot being taken. Slightly cropped and sharpened, but no need to do anything with the colour it was perfect already.
these historic buildings once housed grain mills, a sugar refinery and warehouses - now converted into offices and flats, they are seen here reflected in the still water of the Forth & Clyde Canal
Port Dundas - April 2018
The former Baptist Mission Church, 26 Canal Street, Glasgow, UK. Snapseed edit.
www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/9302/name/Cowca...
A closer view at Port Dundas depot with two RM's - one re-registered . The variations in livery treatment around the front end , as well as the mudguards & wheels are noticeable.
dated 1800, the canal house stands at the entrance to the north side of Spiers Wharf Basin
Port Dundas - April 2018
The former Baptist Mission Church, 26 Canal Street, Glasgow, UK. Snapseed edit.
www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/9302/name/Cowca...
Architect: William James Anderson, 1892, with later extension (the right half) ; built as a warehouse, but converted into a model lodging house in 1895 (the Orient Boarding House), and for residential use in 2006.
The façade may show references to mediaeval Italy, but the building is an early exercise in steel frame with concrete floors.
Buchanan bus station is the main bus terminus in Glasgow, Scotland.
The bus station is the terminus for journeys between the city and other towns in United Kingdom and international journeys. It was originally built in 1977, close to the former site of Buchanan Street railway station which was closed in the 1960s by the Beeching Axe.
The construction of the station realigned the intersection between Parliamentary Road and Sauchiehall Street, a section of the former being renamed as Killermont Street, which runs along the southern edge of the station.
It is operated by the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, who inherited it from their predecessor agency, Strathclyde Passenger Transport, who in turn acquired it from Scottish Citylink in 1993.
This development saw the consolidation of all bus services in Glasgow to the station, with all routes transferred from the Anderston Centre terminus, which was subsequently closed.
It is the biggest bus station in Scotland, with around 1,700 bus journeys departing from the station every day, with over 40,000 passengers using these journeys on a daily basis. It is within walking distance of Glasgow Queen Street railway station and Cowcaddens and Buchanan Streetsubway stations.
There is a bus link serving the bus station, Queen Street and Centralstations.
The Clyde Clock is an odd specimen; a stainless steel statue of a running pair of legs, with a cube clock as a body.
Aptly positioned outside Buchanan Bus Station, whose army of vehicles almost always run on time (and past which many passengers run to catch them), it was created by Glasgow artist George Wyllie.
The work was commissioned by the local radio station, Radio Clyde, to celebrate their 25 years of independent broadcasting.
Wyllie designed it to chime just once, at 8pm, which he considered to be the ideal meeting time. Rather superstitiously, shortly after Wyllie passed away in May 2012, the clock stopped working.
As the Mitchell Library launched a retrospective exhibition showcasing Wyllie’s work entitled “In Pursuit of the Question Mark,” Radio Clyde and MSP Drew Smith launched a successful campaign to get the clock running again .
WHERE IS IT?
On Killermont Street, near the main entrance to the Buchanan Bus Station and opposite the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
George Wylie Information
Born December 31, 1921
Shettleston, Glasgow, Scotland
Died May 15, 2012 (aged 90)
Inverclyde
Resting place Greenock Crematorium
55.948275°N 4.776916°W
Nationality Scottish
Known for Sculpture
Notable work
Straw Locomotive, Paper Boat, Clyde Clock
Spouse(s) Daphne Watts (m. 1944–2004)
Awards MBE 2005 Services to the Arts .
Wyllie was born in Shettleston, in the east end of Glasgow, and grew up in Craigton, in the south west of the city. He was educated at Bellahouston Academy and Allan Glen's School.
He later resided in Gourock. He worked as a customs officer before taking up art.He described himself as a "sculptor".
Wyllie's Straw Locomotive consisted of a full size steam locomotive, constructed from straw, and suspended from the Finnieston Crane, by the River Clyde in Glasgow.
The sculpture was built at the former locomotive works at Springburn, and suspended from the crane for several months during 1987, before being taken back to the Springburn site and ceremonially burnt.
The 80-foot Paper Boat was exhibited at The Tramway in Glasgow and at other sites including a placement on the Hudson River in New York,for which visit it carried quotations from Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
Wyllie's Slap and Tickle Machine is in the collection of the People's Palace, Glasgow, and wind-up stainless steel palm trees and a sculptural bandstand featured in the café of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.
George Wyllie was commissioned in the 1970s to build some French influenced sculptures including
General Charles de Gaulle, one of the Eiffel Tower and smaller mustachioed & beret wearing French visages (used as coat hooks) that were dotted around the city's first wine bar, "La Bonne Auberge", in its original site (the basement of the now defunct Beacons Hotel at 7 Park Terrace).
The following year Wyllie contributed a golden eagle made from old car bumpers which adorned the wall of Harvey's Diner, (it took six men to lift and secure it) and two stainless steel palm trees in Harvey's Cocktail Bar at 8 Park Terrace.
A gramophone with a rather large fiberglass megaphone was also sited in the bar at Harvey's but is now on display (alongside the Tour d' Eiffel) in La Bonne Auberge located within the Holiday Inn, in Glasgow's theatreland.
One of Wyllie's most famous creations, Charlie Parker & His Band, could be seen within Charlie Parker's Bar in Royal Exchange Square in the 1970s and 1980s, the set was up for sale and was meant to have been on display in a jazz museum.
Wyllie's work can also be seen in the Clyde Clock (depicting a clock on running legs), outside Buchanan bus station and in the Monument to Maternity (depicting a huge nappy pin), on the site of the former RottenrowMaternity Hospital. Collections: Glasgow Corporation Museum of Transport, Cheshire County Council, Glasgow Cathedral, St. John's Kirk, Perth, St. Mary's Hospital, Lanark, Mitchell Limited, Greenock, and public and private collections at home, USA and Sweden.
Wyllie stood as a list candidate (Scottish Senior Citizens Unity Party) for the West of Scotland region in the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary Election.
Wyllie was a president of the Society of Scottish Artists and provides an award for an imaginative work at their annual exhibition.
Wyllie was awarded the MBE in the New Years Honours List 2005.
An old shot from the archive. This is one of only a few photos where I anticipated the shot at least 10 seconds before it occurred and still managed to capture it. :)
Buchanan bus station is the main bus terminus in Glasgow, Scotland.
The bus station is the terminus for journeys between the city and other towns in United Kingdom and international journeys. It was originally built in 1977, close to the former site of Buchanan Street railway station which was closed in the 1960s by the Beeching Axe.
The construction of the station realigned the intersection between Parliamentary Road and Sauchiehall Street, a section of the former being renamed as Killermont Street, which runs along the southern edge of the station.
It is operated by the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, who inherited it from their predecessor agency, Strathclyde Passenger Transport, who in turn acquired it from Scottish Citylink in 1993.
This development saw the consolidation of all bus services in Glasgow to the station, with all routes transferred from the Anderston Centre terminus, which was subsequently closed.
It is the biggest bus station in Scotland, with around 1,700 bus journeys departing from the station every day, with over 40,000 passengers using these journeys on a daily basis. It is within walking distance of Glasgow Queen Street railway station and Cowcaddens and Buchanan Streetsubway stations.
There is a bus link serving the bus station, Queen Street and Centralstations.
The Clyde Clock is an odd specimen; a stainless steel statue of a running pair of legs, with a cube clock as a body.
Aptly positioned outside Buchanan Bus Station, whose army of vehicles almost always run on time (and past which many passengers run to catch them), it was created by Glasgow artist George Wyllie.
The work was commissioned by the local radio station, Radio Clyde, to celebrate their 25 years of independent broadcasting.
Wyllie designed it to chime just once, at 8pm, which he considered to be the ideal meeting time. Rather superstitiously, shortly after Wyllie passed away in May 2012, the clock stopped working.
As the Mitchell Library launched a retrospective exhibition showcasing Wyllie’s work entitled “In Pursuit of the Question Mark,” Radio Clyde and MSP Drew Smith launched a successful campaign to get the clock running again .
WHERE IS IT?
On Killermont Street, near the main entrance to the Buchanan Bus Station and opposite the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
George Wylie Information
Born December 31, 1921
Shettleston, Glasgow, Scotland
Died May 15, 2012 (aged 90)
Inverclyde
Resting place Greenock Crematorium
55.948275°N 4.776916°W
Nationality Scottish
Known for Sculpture
Notable work
Straw Locomotive, Paper Boat, Clyde Clock
Spouse(s) Daphne Watts (m. 1944–2004)
Awards MBE 2005 Services to the Arts .
Wyllie was born in Shettleston, in the east end of Glasgow, and grew up in Craigton, in the south west of the city. He was educated at Bellahouston Academy and Allan Glen's School.
He later resided in Gourock. He worked as a customs officer before taking up art.He described himself as a "sculptor".
Wyllie's Straw Locomotive consisted of a full size steam locomotive, constructed from straw, and suspended from the Finnieston Crane, by the River Clyde in Glasgow.
The sculpture was built at the former locomotive works at Springburn, and suspended from the crane for several months during 1987, before being taken back to the Springburn site and ceremonially burnt.
The 80-foot Paper Boat was exhibited at The Tramway in Glasgow and at other sites including a placement on the Hudson River in New York,for which visit it carried quotations from Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
Wyllie's Slap and Tickle Machine is in the collection of the People's Palace, Glasgow, and wind-up stainless steel palm trees and a sculptural bandstand featured in the café of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.
George Wyllie was commissioned in the 1970s to build some French influenced sculptures including
General Charles de Gaulle, one of the Eiffel Tower and smaller mustachioed & beret wearing French visages (used as coat hooks) that were dotted around the city's first wine bar, "La Bonne Auberge", in its original site (the basement of the now defunct Beacons Hotel at 7 Park Terrace).
The following year Wyllie contributed a golden eagle made from old car bumpers which adorned the wall of Harvey's Diner, (it took six men to lift and secure it) and two stainless steel palm trees in Harvey's Cocktail Bar at 8 Park Terrace.
A gramophone with a rather large fiberglass megaphone was also sited in the bar at Harvey's but is now on display (alongside the Tour d' Eiffel) in La Bonne Auberge located within the Holiday Inn, in Glasgow's theatreland.
One of Wyllie's most famous creations, Charlie Parker & His Band, could be seen within Charlie Parker's Bar in Royal Exchange Square in the 1970s and 1980s, the set was up for sale and was meant to have been on display in a jazz museum.
Wyllie's work can also be seen in the Clyde Clock (depicting a clock on running legs), outside Buchanan bus station and in the Monument to Maternity (depicting a huge nappy pin), on the site of the former RottenrowMaternity Hospital. Collections: Glasgow Corporation Museum of Transport, Cheshire County Council, Glasgow Cathedral, St. John's Kirk, Perth, St. Mary's Hospital, Lanark, Mitchell Limited, Greenock, and public and private collections at home, USA and Sweden.
Wyllie stood as a list candidate (Scottish Senior Citizens Unity Party) for the West of Scotland region in the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary Election.
Wyllie was a president of the Society of Scottish Artists and provides an award for an imaginative work at their annual exhibition.
Wyllie was awarded the MBE in the New Years Honours List 2005.
It rained this morning, so I delayed my walk until the afternoon, heading along the Forth & Clyde Canal to Speirs Wharf to be presented with this view. The towers at Park Circus are in the distance.
Through visiting my dad today, we stopped briefly at the Glasgow Wake Park. Sited on the old Port Dundas part of the Forth and Clyde Canal, this was once an important inland port for the loading and unloading of barges on the canal (which goes from the River Clyde through to Falkirk, where it connects to the Union Canal that then goes on to Edinburgh, linking the two cities).
Now the former port is a water sports area, with a zipline pulling people along for wakeboarding and another part with artificial "rapids" for kayakers to negotiate. Quite a cool re-use of a once important, then abandoned industrial area.
late in the day and these lads are still celebrating the first day of spring weather down at the canal side
Port Dundas - April 2018
Through visiting my dad today, we stopped briefly at the Glasgow Wake Park. Sited on the old Port Dundas part of the Forth and Clyde Canal, this was once an important inland port for the loading and unloading of barges on the canal (which goes from the River Clyde through to Falkirk, where it connects to the Union Canal that then goes on to Edinburgh, linking the two cities).
Now the former port is a water sports area, with a zipline pulling people along for wakeboarding and another part with artificial "rapids" for kayakers to negotiate. Quite a cool re-use of a once important, then abandoned industrial area.
While the wake boarders were having their fun on the repurposed Port Dundas on the edge of the Forth & Clyde Canal, just a few yards away dad and I spotted these beautiful swans, teaching their gorgeous young to swim, the little cygnets absolutely tiny, still covered in a very fluffy down and making little "meep" noises, their parents keeping them close by. Utterly gorgeous and adorable wee thing. Sorry, I tried to take a couple of close ups of the cygnets themselves, but they didn't come out very well (glare of bright sun on the water confused the camera, I think), but at least I managed these few "family" portraits.
Old warehouses built around the canal at Port Dundas in Glasgow known as Speirs Wharf
A Black & White version of flic.kr/p/jH2815
View from Speirs Wharf on the Forth & Clyde Canal, with rather ominous thick clouds low down in the far distance (somewhere in the valley of the River Clyde) behind the towers of Park Circus, a bank of cloud above catching the sunset.
The second fire in four years to totally devaste the Charles Rennie MacIntosh designed Glasgow School of Art builing.
Through visiting my dad today, we stopped briefly at the Glasgow Wake Park. Sited on the old Port Dundas part of the Forth and Clyde Canal, this was once an important inland port for the loading and unloading of barges on the canal (which goes from the River Clyde through to Falkirk, where it connects to the Union Canal that then goes on to Edinburgh, linking the two cities).
Now the former port is a water sports area, with a zipline pulling people along for wakeboarding and another part with artificial "rapids" for kayakers to negotiate. Quite a cool re-use of a once important, then abandoned industrial area.