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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There's a great photo of Einstein and his host standing together on these steps as they smoked (presumably because they weren't allowed to do it inside the house!)

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This 1850s townhouse overlooking Kelvingrove Park in the west end of Glasgow has an interesting little bit of history attached to it.

In the 1930s, it was home to Archibald Young the professor of Surgery at Glasgow University, and when Albert Einstein visited the city in 1933 to receive an honourary degree, it was here that he stayed.

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Here is the first of several posts about the architect of my own house, Robert Duncan (1841-1928), on my website.

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The Nelson Monument on Glasgow Green. Built in 1806, it was the first monument to Lord Nelson (who had died at the Battle of Trafalgar the year before) in Britain paid for by public subscription.

It gave rise to the phrase 'You'll die facing the monument', meaning to be executed by public hanging, as the gallows in the nearby Jail Square faced towards it. As a result, it would be one of the last things the condemned would see.

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The entrance to the main office of the former Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Govan, Glasgow. It was designed by John Keppie and was built in 1891.

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The Justiciary Court on Saltmarket in Glasgow as seen from the old Jocelyn Square on what is now part of Glasgow Green.

Until 1865, anyone sentenced to public execution in this court would have travelled through a tunnel under Saltmarket to emerge into the square, where they would then be hung.

This spot is now marked with a plaque set into the pavement in front of the MacLellan Arch.

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A juvenile heron taking advantage of Glasgow's industrial past by fishing in the lade for the now-ruined North Woodside Flint Mill on the River Kelvin.

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The City of Glasgow Union Railway Line running from the Saint Enoch Station (closed 1966) across the City Union Bridge (the towers of which are just visible in the distance) to the Gorbals Station (closed 1928) and Cumberland Street Station (closed 1966). This line is still used to move rolling stock around Glasgow.

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I've walked, run, driven and cycled up Bryres Road in Glasgow hubdreds of times, but only noticed this remnant of Glasgow's long-gone electric trolleybus/tram network for the first tine yesterday. It's at the junction with Great Western Road opposite Oran Mor.

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Metal kerb protector on Waterloo Lane in Glasgow. These were once a common feature of Glasgow streets and stopped cart wheels damanging the kerb stones. They became obsolete when the internal combustion engine and pneumatic tyres replaced the horse and cart, and many have been removed, but they're still relatively common in the back lanes in some parts of the city centre.

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Going by the presence of access covers like these, the largest remaining part of this system seems to be running from Baltic Chambers on Hope Street down into Robertson Street.

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I've posted both of these access covers before, but today I realised they're both part of Glasgow's old Hydraulic Power system.

From a pumping station on High Street, pressurised water was pumped through thirty miles of pipes made of one inch thick steel and up to seven inches in diamter to power industrial equipment across the city.

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A ghost sign on a doorway at 37 Virginia Street in Glasgow. I love coming across the remains of old hand-painted signs like this.

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Prismatic coal hole cover on Hope Street in Glasgow. Coal holes in the street allowed deliveries to coal cellars without having to carry the coal through a building. Prismatic covers were commonly used allow natural light into the otherwise pitch black coal cellars. Only a few of the original prisms remain in this particular example

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Police box on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. While we now think of police boxes as being blue, in Glasgow red was the traditional colour.

In the days before radios and mobile phones, these boxes allowed patrolling officers to keep in touch with the local station as well as allowing members of the public to contact both the police and the fire bridage in case of an emergency.

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I've come across a few of these HOP access covers on the streets of Glasgow recently, and I've been struggling to find out what they were for.

My best guess is that they're part of an old hydraulic system which supplied high pressure (HP?) water for running lifts, presses and other machinery.

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Rockvilla House at the Applecross Canal Basin in the north of Glasgow. Originally, this was the end of the Forth and Clyde canal and the building served as a base for a coach service into Glasgow. From 1790 onwards it served as a house for the lock keeper/canal manager.

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This bottle dates from some point prior to the takeover of the Scottish Cooperative Society by its English counterpart in the early 1970s, and was the type of milk bottle which was, at one time, provided to every child each day in primary school.

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