The remains of the 1820s Craigmarloch Stables near Kilsyth. This was one of a number of identical stables built along the Forth and Clyde Canal in central Scotland to provide changes of the teams of horses used to pull fast passenger vessels known as Swifts. Capable of carrying up to 200 people, these Swifts could make the journey between Edinburgh and Glasgow in less than 8 hours at a time when it would take several days to make the same journey by road.

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The former mooring point of the Queens of the Canals at the Craigmarloch Basin on the Forth and Clyde Canal, some 25km east of Glasgow. In 1893, a steamer by the name of the Fairy Queen started offering day trips along the canal between Port Dundas in Glasgow and Craigmarloch.

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