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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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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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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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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A Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society 1/4 pint glass milk bottle found today alongside the Forth and Clyde Canal in Maryhill. It is embossed with the text 'The Property of SCWS Loaned on Deposit'.

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This is one of lamp posts on the Queen Margaret Drive bridge on the west end of Glasgow. From its shape and design, it looks like it might have started its life as a gas-powered lamp and was only later converted to run on electricity. If it is, it's one of the few reminders left of the city's once ubiquitous gas lighting network, which started in 1818 and was finally turned off in 1971.

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I love it when old street furinture is left in place when streets get renovated. This great example is from Oswald Street in central Glasgow. I really want to know what it used to be for as the instructions on it are very precise, but are now rather cryptic given how this area has changed over the years.

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Some of the clay pipes I found alongside the Forth and Clyde Canal in Maryhill this evening. My two favourites are in the bottom row: An anchor (middle left) and a face (middle right).

Almost all the pipes have a stamp on the stem saying Murray on one side and Glasgow on the other (second picture). This indicates they were made by William Murray between 1833 and 1861 (or 1891 depending on the source!).

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Sandwiched between the Glasgow Necropolis and the Tennent's Brewery, the Lady Well is a truly ancient part of the city. One of what was once a series of holy wells in the city, its origins go back hundreds and possibly even thousands of years.

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The Stockingfield Junction Safety Gate.

The Forth and Clyde Canal sits on a raise embankment high above the north of Glasgow. This safety gate was one of several installed in 1942 to stop the canal flooding the city in the event it was bombed during the Second World War.

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Tram rossettes on Glasgow Tenements.

When the Glasgow tram network was electrified at the end of the 19th Century, these rossettes were installed to help support the wires.

While the trams stopped operating in 1962, you can still follow many of the old routes by looking for these distinctive remnants on the sides of buildlings.

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In a time before modern techology, this was how they ensured that a foot (or any other linear measurement) used to build something in Glasgow remained the same as a foot in Birmingham, or London, or for that matter in Australia or Canada.

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The Standards for Imperial Measures, Glasgow City Chambers, George Square, Glasgow.

I love this little piece of Glasgow's past set into the bottom right hand corner of the City Chambers. I suspect a lot of people walk past it every day without giving it a second glance or realising what it is.

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Upper scuttle value cover in the gate of the number two Govan Graving Dock, Glasgow.

You can tell that this houses the upper scuttle valve because it says so right on the cover. It also tells you what the open and closed positions for the valve are.

Knowing what an upper scuttle valve does, and when you should be opening or closing it, is quite a different matter!

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