This Is My GlasgowWakeboarding at Port Dundas in the heart of Glasgow.
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Until today, I hadn't realised that Middle Earth could be reached via Speirs Wharf on the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow!
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The Glasgow Wake Park in Port Dundas on the Glasgow arm Forth and Clyde Canal. Opened in 2015 as part of the Pinkston Watersports Centre, it's built in an area once dominated by chemical works, factories, foundries and the Pinkston Power Station, which was built in 1900 to supply electricity to Glasgow's extensive tram network when it was electrified in time for the 1901 International Exhibition in Kelvingrove Park.
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The rusting hull of an old canal boat recovered from the bottom of the Port Dundas Basin on the Forth and Clyde Canal in the north of Glasgow and placed on a platform beside the canal.
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MegaZoneToday's additions - first a Clan Denny 14 year Port Dundas single grain Scotch from auction. And from Julio's Liquors Loch & Key Whisk(e)y Society the last of the Maker's Mark stave run, "Encore". Plus two Copper & Cask releases - "French Kiss" 7 year bourbon finished in Armagnac and "Roxie" 8 year rye finished in a Moxie seasoned cask.
That's right, Moxie. Yes, it's good.
Both C&C bottles and boxes are signed by Ryan Maloney and Randall Bird.
#Whisky #Whiskey #Scotch #Bourbon #Rye #Moxie #ClanDenny #PortDundas #CopperAndCask #MakersMark
Within a few decades of the bridge being built, railway lines like this one would outcompete canals as a means of freight transport, and in the 1960s the canal was finally closed.
By the 1980s this railway line, too, had closed as the industrial businesses it once served also disappeared.
Much of the canal has now been re-opened, but the bridge is pretty much all that's left of this particular railway line.
#glasgow #glasgowhistory #oldrailways #bridge #forthandclydecanal #portdundas
End of the Line: This swing bridge was built across the Forth and Clyde Canal at Port Dundas in Glasgow around 1890 to allow trains on the Caledonian Railway's Port Dundas line to cross it and so serve potential industrial freight customers at Speirs Wharf and Port Dundas itself.
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Looking west across Glasgow from Port Dundas at dusk. In the right foreground is the 1860s Wheatsheaf Building on Speirs Wharf, in the middle is the 1960s Woodside High Flats, while in the left background is the distinctive 1870s gothic tower of Glasgow University.
#glasgow #glasgowbuildings #portdundas #dusk #sunset #glasgowsunset #glasgowuniversity #woodside #speirswharf
The rusting hull of an old canal boat recovered from the bottom of the Port Dundas Basin on the Forth and Clyde Canal in the north of Glasgow and placed on a platform beside the canal.
#glasgow #portdundas #canal #canalboat #forthandclydecanal #oldboat
Walruses, dolphinfish, herons and cherubs holding crocodiles: This is the uniquely fabulous and bizarre Grand Central Fountain in Paisley. Dating from 1868, it was made for the industrialist Thomas Coats by the famous Sun Foundry based in Port Dundas in Glasgow. It was beautifully restored in the 2010s, and as far as I know there isn't another fountain like it anywhere else in the world.
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