Image is of two cyclists enjoying a break by the side of the Forth & Clyde Canal. Conditions are ideal: a still, sunny day. Dominant colours are greens and browns, with cyclists bright clothing creating a small colour splash.
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This may explain why these ones can be found alongside the canal, which was constructed at the end of the 18th century.
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In this photo from the Applecross Basin on the Forth and Clyde Canal in the north of Glasgow, there are cobblestones on the left and setts on the right.
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Cobblestones vs Setts. These two types of traditional road surfaces are often confused, but they're easy to tell apart.
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They're currently been worked on, so one of the basins is now empty of water, giving a change to see parts of them you'd never usually get to see. I bet there's some interesting stuff hidden in all that mud!
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An unusual view of the Maryhill Locks in the northwest of Glasgow. Part of the Forth and Clyde Canal, the locks were constructed in the 1780s.
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Todays ride included Kilpatrick Hills Forest & John Muir Way. This above Bowling & Erskine Bridge before the clouds came in! #CyclingScotland #JohnMuirWay #ForthAndClydeCanal
Not bad for someone in their fifties who'd never really done any long-distance running before starting this challenge!
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My long run today took me up along the Forth and Clyde. Canal, where there's always an interesting sight or two to be had, but this morning's run was a bit of a special one for me.
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They were built around the 1870s and were once part of the Glasgow Lead and Colour Works.
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It's great to see these polychromatic brick former industrial buildings on the Forth and Clyde Canal in the Ruchill area of Glasgow brought back into use in a very sympathetic way.
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Glasgow University, which sits on a hill above the West End of the city, from the Hamiltonhill Claypits Nature Reserve on Forth and Clyde Canal in the north of Glasgow.
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Wakeboarding at Port Dundas in the heart of Glasgow.
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Nicer than the canal you hear about at the dentist #forthandclydecanal #kirkintilloch #reflections #canal
Created by artists Minty Donald, Neil McGuire and Nick Millar, it involved various attempts to pull a barge carrying 10 tons of timber using a variety of 'engines', including a heavy horse, artists, kayakers, pack of dogs and Scotland’s strongest man.
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This an interesting little marker set into the stonework of the Forth and Clyde Canal opposite The Whisky Bond in the north of Glasgow. It's a reminder of a public art project called Displacement carried out there in July 2015.
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The beautiful World Egg hidden inside the mouth of Bella the Beithir, a sculpture by Nichol Wheatley at the Stockingfield Junction on the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow.
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Former warehouse for the Port Dundas Sugar Refinery at Speirs Wharf in Glasgow, which was built in 1866. The refinery itself was based in the next building to the south of this one.
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Nice walk around Scottish Canals Bowling Harbour.
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A young heron using an abandoned rowing boat as a fishing perch on the Forth and Clyde Canal in the Maryhill area of Glasgow.
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This evening at Canal House on Speirs Wharf in Glasgow. It was built around 1800 as an office for company which ran the Forth and Clyde Canal.
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Not too sure if there's anything that can be done to prevent it, but it's quite a common occurence along this tow path.
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A newt stranded on the footpath alongside the Forth and Clyde Canal Glasgow that I can across on my run this morning. I moved it into the grass at the side, but at least two others I saw weren't so lucky.
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This canal was the world's first manmade sea-to-sea water way designed to provide a shortcut for shipping, making it the forerunner of the much larger Suez and Panama Canals.
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The Kelvin Aqueduct in Maryhill. Opened in 1790, it carries the Forth and Clyde Canal over the River Kelvin.
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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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These trips came to an end with the outbreak of World War II in 1939, and now the rusted mooring rings and decaying dock is all that's left of this once-popular tourist destination for the people of Glasgow.
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As the tours developed, two other boats, the Gypsy Queen and the May Queen, and a tearoom with a dance floor was built at Craigmarloch as well as swings for kids and a putting green.
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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. These proved so popular that a new and larger Fairy Queen was soon needed
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