Photo Gallery 2007

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Maryhill Lock at the old White House Pub undergoing reconstruction work January - March 2007. Work is to refurbish canal walls at approach to lock and walls inside first basin
Voyager at SpeakerMartin Lock Awaiting the lock opening Entering lower basin at Port Dundas Sailing alongside the M8 motorway
Voyager visits Speaker Martin Lock at Spiers Wharf, Glasgow with children from some Glasgow Schools as part of a Waterways Trust Project teaching children about the Forth and Clyde Canal and its regeneration.
Ducklings arrive on the canal Heron Swallow Penguin??
Deer Buzzard Damselfly Heron in flight
Some new wildlife and some strange wildlife seen on the canal during this year.
Two boats at the Stables Boat Boat2  
Southbank Rd pedestrian bridgw
Bridge work
Bridge2
Bridge3
Work ongoing to build new pedestrian bridge giving access to Southbank Road Marina, Kirkintilloch
Spartan on slip
Spartan enters water
Spartan almost afloat
Spartan sails again
The puffer "Spartan" was given a new lease of life at the Maratime Museum in Irvine on 27 August 2007. She was built for war service in 1942 by J.Hay and Sons in Kirkintilloch and retired in 1980. She in now afloat after some refabrication work with plans for her to become a floating interactive theatre which will visit coastal towns. (Photos courtesy of C. Inglis)
The "Vital Spark" visits Bowling Basin to celebrate 150years of Puffers on the Forth and Clyde Canal on 3 December 2007

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New photographs added on :-3 January 2008

 

Last updated:13 December 2007.

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