Maryhill locks; Astonishing Glasgow. Ep32
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- This time on Astonishing Glasgow I take a cycle to Maryhill Locks on the Forth and Clyde canal.
A tranquil stretch of the canal that played a part in World war 2, the industrial revolution and was proclaimed as one of the eight wonders of the world.
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Great City great People, just saying 😎👍🇬🇧
Great video , well filmed and very interesting !
Fantastic. Thank you for taking the time to research and present this.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Husband and both of our best friend spent many long and happy hours fishing on its banks taking our son and daughter along . Those like were vicious but our old dog loved them so every other trip one was kept cooked and cut into portions for freezer for her..this was way back in the 70's.
Thanks
Loving your videos about historic Glasgow mate. I just watched your one about Scotland street. Absolutely fascinating what our city used to be. Keep it going.
Thanks!
My mum was from Maryhill Cedar Street she moved to England and met my dad she passed in 2020 we miss her so much she was one in a million and never lost her accent my profile pic was taken in Maryhill of my sister's Louise and gran I'm definitely going to take a trip up one these days with ashes of my mum an Sister miss you mum and Louise so much 💕💞💔
Don't leave it to late alice you're mum would be proud of you God Bless
Lived in neven st crossed the locks every dat to go to school
Thanks for this very informative film. I'd of never of guessed landing craft were built on the dry dock in Maryhill. I'll need to go up and have a wonder about the canal. Thanks again.
was born in gairbraid ave played in canal as a kid
Very good. It makes a person swell up with pride to see and hear about where their family called home. Thank you Sir from across the pond.
I have only just discovered your channel this evening. Watched a couple already. Fantastic work. Great history of the area. Grew up on Raeberry St from 1968, auld tenements back then. Thank you
I was the same time in Hillhead. My pal in primary school lived in Henderson St, her family were the last to live in that street as the demolitions had already begun,.... I remember there was no roof on the building as ye were going up the stairs in the close! (They were top flat!)
Great Video I Have Driven Past There Hundreds Of Times And Didn't Realise There Was So Many Working Locks Next Time I Pass I Will Stop And Have A Look Cheers
Fab stuff, David! This calls for a visit to Maryhill next time I'm back! Cheers:-)
Glad Still Game got a mention. The canal did feature quite a lot in the show. Also recently been in the channel 4 show grand designs on that patch of land that's being developed.
I used to enjoy the bike ride back from Scotstoun to the city centre when I worked at BAE (Yarrows).
great , always learning something from your videos , i now assume that the pub name "the kelvin dock" is reference to this dry dock also the great railway history of all the old lines , dismantled bridges and pillars in the river kelvin , place was a credit to the hard graft of its era
Thank you mate, I am really glad you are enjoying the videos. You are absolutely correct, The Kelvin Dock pub is named after this dock and at 1:30 you can just make out the pub in the background looking over the dock.
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Amazing - lived over at Sandbank crescent for 2 years - saw the canal from my bedroom - wish I’d checked it out a bit more!
I lived in maryhill for a few years and used to walk the dug around this area. It's amazing seeing and following the old railway lines (footpaths now) and imagining just how busy it would have been between the canal and rail around there at one point in time. As I've said previously, love the videos and keep up the good work.
I saw an old picture while making this video that shows railway waggons parked on sidings right up to the aqueduct on the opposite end to the locks. It is astonishing (I meant that :-D) how things have changed around Glasgow.
Really fascinating. Like most of your episodes I new nothing of this beforehand, despite living less than 2 hours from Glasgow and have visited many times.
The first time I cycled along the canal (which was only within the last 10 years) I couldnt quite believe it was there and I have lived in Glasgow my whole life. Maryhill locks feels like its in the middle of the countryside when you are there but it is surrounded by the city.
So there was a Mary Hill 👊
...but there wasn't a Bella Houston.
Absolutely fascinating. So are your other videos. Well done. 💕😇
Brilliant info.. I've cycled up there many times, nice to learn the history. Thanks 👍
Love stopping off here On the bike. Not far from me either
Many, many years ago mid 70's while being stationed in The Holy Loch I joined SIWA (Scottish Inland Waterways Assn.) We would hand pull an old steel barge from Kirkintilloch to the top loch of Maryhill for a canal fair, displays, food and music. Then later we would pull it back stopping at Bishopbriggs for another fair and finally end up back in Kirky. The top lock right behind the Whitehouse Pub I helped clean out, there was a group WRG (waterways recovery group) that came up from England for cleaning it out. There was a crane and trucks to haul away the debris, found all kinds of stuff a couple cars, lots of shopping trolleys and you name it it was in there. It was about 7' deep. Those English were going crazy catching eels. We did get it cleaned. And had a drink in the empty lock. I've walked most of the length of the F&C in stages. The hardest was the stretch from the Stirling Rd to Kilsyth, it was kinda like a ditch very narrow and deepish you had to walk one foot in front of the other. Really enjoyed my time in the assn.
Great bit of history, thank you for sharing.
In the 1800's, convicts left from here to start their journey to Australia. Drunk on a Saturday night, perhaps fighting in the local pub, into court on Monday morning, and they could find themselves sentenced and put on a boat here to start their journey to Oz. And of course, never to return.
On the D-Day topic, it’s little known that Air Marshal Tedder, Deputy Supreme Commander under Eisenhower for Operation Overlord, was born in the nearby Dumgoyne Distillery. There’s a plaque commemorating this just inside the entrance.
If I haven’t said it before, I’m really enjoying these videos. I’m toying with renting in Glasgow for a few months.
Thank you so much for your kind words and support. I really enjoy putting them together so when time allows there will definitely be more. I hope I am doing a little bit towards telling people that Glasgow has a lot more to it than football, religion and crime.
Great video, and channel. Really advertises fascinating and hidden features of Glasgow. I've only been to Glasgow a few times but only ever been to the familiar west end. I must make an effort to venture further when I next visit.
Another interesting insight into the City I now call home. So many facts. In a strange coincidence my son who is studying International Relations & Linguistics at Aberdeen Uni has picked up a fascination for architecture and came across your RUclips channel independently & was surprised to see his Dad commenting on your content and we were able to discuss on his last visit. He had watched the one on the battery on the South side of the city and told me it had similarities to a site at Mugdock Park Milngavie to the North.
Thanks John and what are the chances of your son finding me as well? That's mad. The AAB at Mugdock was built at the same time and is very similar but because it is in the country park it has survived better.
Those lock gates are in bad nick.
In December of the same year the video was filmed, the ''underside'' of the aqueduct got covered in some of the most impressive icycles I've ever seen in a city (and I am from a country much colder then Scotland). All that sound of running and driping water turned into massive spires, sheets of ice covered the Eastern side column just by the river, fantastic ice ''sculptures'' formed under that arch. I sure do hope whoever is taking care of the structure is aware of it.:)
I wish I had seen that, sounds amazing. I did think there was a bit more water dripping from the aqueduct than there should be when I was filming. I only hope that its such an important structure it gets properly inspected at regular intervals.
As a cyclist, if its your first time cycling up these locks, it takes some effort, five locks in total to climb. I now cycle on a regular basis along here, and find these locks, are perfect for my training, in going up hill
And now have got so good at cycling uphill, and at a reasonable speed
Thats why I prefer to join the canal at Spiers wharf and do the climb at the Cowcaddens end. Its then a really enjoyable ride along the canal then onto the Kelvin walkways back towards Kelvingrove and I start and finish my ride from home in Cathcart so its a good 15-20 mile ride.
Just found your channel today.
Absolutely fantastic, so interesting and well done keep making more please.
Thanks
Thank you very much and I am glad you have liked the videos so far. I have many more stories to tell so as soon as the weather picks up again I will be back out filming.
@@AstonishingGlasgow
Omg you replied,
I am on the prospect hill flat video atm,
I love all them, the Glasgow 1988 garden fair video was so so interesting,
I’m sitting binge watching all your videos today.
Can’t wait for new ones there so so interesting,
The 1 about James watt in Glasgow green I never knew that’s where he was when coming up with the idea of re engineering of the Beam steam engine.
I thought I knew my history I can’t wait till it’s nice outside as I am going to all the places in your videos,
Thanks your videos and knowledge is awesome bro.
Of course I replied, I try to reply to all comments when I can. Over on the facebook page I will be adding a picture soon of the actual model that James Watt was working on at Glasgow university at the time he took his walk on Glasgow green. I nearly fell over when I saw it and realised its significance.
If I get enough interest I will also organise a few walks or cycles of some of the places if anybody wants to see them but may not know the areas well enough to go themselves and you would be welcome to join in.
Is that are white pub still there,white hoose,is it
The building is still there but no longer a pub. Its now a cafe, bike shop and art gallery.
I thought the Mary Hill person thing was all just a joke.
It sounds like it should be but she did exist.
Not to be confused with Bella Houston...
Thanks
Thank you John, if I ever get merch made up you are on the list for a freebie.