If you look carefully at the iron guard on the bridge pier on the left of this picture, you can see where the ropes used to pull the barges have cut into it.

Thanks to Centre-Ground on Twitter for bringing this interesting remnant from the past to my attention.

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A fragment of the old Monkland Canal passing under Castle Street in Glasgow.

Designed by James Watt, the Monkland Canal was completed in 1794 and was built to bring coal from the mines around Monklands into Glasgow. Most of it was filled in on the 1970s when the M8 motoway was built on top of it, but small fragments like this remain.

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I much prefere the original St Enoch Hotel to that shopping monstrosity that replaced it.
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Glasgow Corporation Lighting Department, 1902.

After many years of going to the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow, I noticed this sign on an old lamp post just outside its entrance for the first time today. Love the font they've used for it. It's very subtly Glasgow Style/Art Nouveau

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I don't know how to get the pic high enough res to post here, so I don't know if you can see them, but I've set fans of #OldGlasgow a wee personal challenge 😉

https://twitter.com/FlikeNoir/status/1247062267058847744?s=19