The Monklands canal. Astonishing Glasgow. Ep6
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2024
- The Monklands canal was a major transport highway into Glasgow from the 1700's but what's left, where was it and how is it still technically there?
Find out on this episode of Astonishing Glasgow.
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Attending to little details like the rope-worn stonework of the canal underpass make these videos pure gold.
Great channel.
The Monklands canal is actually maintained by Transport Scotland and it feeds water from a still open section in Drumpellier Park and golf course through two pipes all the way to Pinkston basin. You may have missed a small brick building beside the sports area in the basin, it's no bigger than a small shed . That's where the Monklands close into the Forth and Clyde Canal.
Still some of the canal basin out at Caderbank where once Axles where transported from The Albion Motor Works factory in Calderbank. Nowadays a Tyre and Exhaust Centre. This section runs down to Sykeside In Airdrie. Linking sections filled in as a cycle path towards Summerlee where there is another small section of the Canal and the Vulcan iron Boat. All in the heart of Monklands, Lanarkshire.
I lived at at Haliburton facing on to the canal, house knocked down due to the morotrway coming through.
I remember them using a sort of paddle boat to cut the reeds on the canal (the area bewtween Ware Road and Wardie Road, Also when they were going to drain the canal they dug shafts into the ground and from which which they would dig tunnels to the next shaft, a sort of mini railway was laid to take the spoil out and put the pipes in.
So interesting!
Cheers. That was great. When I was a kid, I remember walking over the old canal footbridge going from Riddrie into Blackhill. I remember the motorway being built and they put in a new footbridge over the M8. Thank you for the video.
Loved it. Great series. We have lost so much of this once great city of ours...
Amazing videos mate 👌
I lived in the east end and remember when the canal was filled in. Having left Glasgow about 30 years, it was amazing to see all the changes. Places I knew so well and now barely recognise. Thanks, I really enjoyed seeing the old and the new.
I grew up in Ruchazie and remember in the mid-70's seeing part of the motorway being constructed or re-built maybe. I was on the road between Cranhill and Ruchazie on the left and with Garthamlock on the right.
0:58 - There was no lock there originally, though there was a bascule bridge. The canal continued at that level east into the basins at Port Dundas, and the Monkland Canal joined to the basin at the southern corner. It still does to this day - there's a small building pumping the water into the basin at that location. You can see the water flowing in when you stand there.
I want the lot. Its all fascinating. Well done!
There’s a substation still at the top end of Castle St at Baird St. Marked on older OS maps it’s the only building that’s survived.
A very interesting film. This is really good content.
There are apparently remains of locks at the side of the motorway. I've never found them because it is impossible to get a good look while driving, but I am assured that there are remains of the stonework visible from the motorway if you know where to look.The locks were later supplemented by an inclined plane because the canal was so busy. I think it all was just east of the gasworks.
I will need to see if I can track down any remains. My Dad worked in the Royal mail office on Baird street and could see the canal wall at the back entrance so there are bits of it out there. The boat incline ran parallel and under the Blochairn off slip at junction 13 of the M8. I would love to tell its story but there are no remains on site and very little recorded evidence.
Very interesting and put together in a compeling way look forward to more like this.
Nice to see the childhood area ,definitely a lot of history around it , never knew that about the horses on the canal towpath under the bridge at Castle St , can remember as kids running along it , ....the telephone box , although a rare sight these days , and I presume out of use , has always been located there back in the /80’s it was the old red type and when I was at Secondary school which is adjacent to the location, its area was a meeting point or where the schools fights after 4 ‘o’clock were settled 🤭.The motorway is such a feature of the area , like most people you never think of the Canal that went before , but it made so much sense to use it as a template for the route, at the Port Dundas basin that area was really rundown and industrial during the 1980s , the canal was filthy , there was a large grassy area next to it now getting built on, which everyone referred to as “ The Cuddies ” there was always an eggy sort of smell in the air from things that were buried in the ground from the former ICI plant that had been pulled down , good to see now it’s been cleaned up and things have improved with the water based activities centre and the new bridge and homes being built . Interesting video as always.
Thanks for getting in touch and sharing all that detail. Its not an area I know very well so imagining how it used to look is quite difficult for me so thanks for filling in some detail.
On the phone box. If you look at the picture from the motorway archive you can see the red phone box where the BT one stands today. I wanted to make a point of this in the video but im not that good at editing yet.
Glad you found the video interesting and I have loads more to come, just need the time to make them.
Give the Clyde tunnel a bash
Outstanding bit of history
Its been on the list for ages but I need to find a camera man/woman to help me.
@@AstonishingGlasgow I would help you out mate but I’d need some notice as to times & dates
Great stuff. Thanks for explaining what happened to the Monklands canal. Would be good to know more about the canal at Coatbridge and onwards to the forth and Clyde beyond. Also the mills which were once in Mearns and Renton.
Still a few stretches of canal in coatbridge. From Bargeddie to Blair Road and from Carnbroe to Calderbank.....A nice walk or cycle !
North Lanarkshire Libraries can help,archives for Airdrie and Coatbridge are held in Airdrie library ,the curator is most helpful.
Very interesting video ! Who knows, maybe in the future the Monklands Canal will exist in yet another form ? As in Venice, we'll use gondolas to visit Glasgow ;)
Here is an interesting story about gondolas. In 1901, Glasgow hosted an international exhibition to celebrate the opening of the Kelvingrove museum (th-cam.com/video/LxXIsNRFSNU/w-d-xo.html ) One of the attractions were a pair of gondoliers from Venice who gave gondola rides on the river Kelvin. Glasgow folk nick named them Senior Hokey and Senior Pokey. A councillor at the time suggested that rather than 2 male gondoliers they should have brought over a male and a female gondolier so that they could breed their own for the future :-D
Great work, thanks. Some industrial videos would be nice. Or videos that explain what old Townhead or Anderston looked like before M8.
Cheers Wee Man. Next video that I am working on now is about the industrial history of an area, I hope you will like it when it goes live.
I was born 1952 in the bottom of roystonhill where it meets castle st just at the old Carlton cinema and played around the canal from an early age it was all old tenement buildings then it is quite a desirable area to live now as it is easy walking distance into the city centre my brother has a house on Josephs View where the old peoples home and convent used to be.....in 1952 it was a bit of a dump with horrible single end and room and kitchen private owned tenements much much nicer now
Amazing. And I worked for the canals reviewing safety - but never had to go beyond the basin. Wow. What have we done to our heritage ?
Do you know the Monkllands canal was the only canal in Scotland to make money, fact,with all the iron foundries in Coatbridge the canal would boil with water off the foundries, Coatbridge in the late to early 19th to twentieth centuries was the most polluted town in Scotland. Instances of lung disease was prevalent, it took years to clean up,now it's a memory....
Enjoy anything about Glasgow’s history - roads, buildings, old railway lines etc. 👍
Amazing. I'd heard about the Monklands Canal / M8 story before but never knew all the details or seen half of what was presented.
As for ideas for the future... Something something Pollok Park. I dunno, there's a lot to pick from there, but something to do with Pollok Park :)
Good Idea Alan, I have a few ideas for Pollok house that I will investigate once lockdown is over.
Just came accross this wee gem.
Thanks for a very informative look sat the monklands canal.
What about the Molendinar burn?
Thanks very much Billy, I am glad you enjoyed it and remember to check out my other videos. I have a long list of subjects to get through and I am sure I will get to the Molendinar at some point.
Brilliant.
Your videos are fantastic for amateur Glasgow historians.
Have you done one for the female prison on Duke Street or the Royal Mail, Railway Depot across the road.
Thank you. I have the prison on the list but hadnt thought of the high street goods depot.
Love your vids...... Brilliant btw
What about glasgows tramway past..? There are relics everywhere...
Thanks Lee, Im really glad you are enjoying the videos. I would love to do some more about the trams and the trolly busses. Im gutted that I didnt start making videos earlier and I could have included pictures of the trolly bus depot on Aikenhead road and the tram depots that have been demolished in the last few years.
@@AstonishingGlasgow im a bus driver in Glasgow...... Let me know if you need a pointer...
@@AstonishingGlasgow my channel th-cam.com/users/leemunro1975
If you went slightly east from your last shot you would see the old incline at Blackhill, superseded by a flight of locks. The locks are long gone but you can still see the line of the incline on the hillside. If you're going east on the M8 it's just before the Riddrie cut off on your right.
I know exactly where you mean and I thought about making it an episode but there are so few images of the incline and so few surviving features that it would be very difficult to tell the story in video.
I walked it once, many years ago, it was nothing but a slope then, the flight of locks were still there but completely abandoned.
I’m from Coatbridge and the pic at 1.41 the water doesn’t exist anymore and has been filled in and is now a walking area
Wow, Glasgow looked much nicer in the past. It's like a jigsaw that's lost many pieces and someone has tried to fit in pieces from another jigsaw.
Thats a really good way to put it. I guess any city looks like that as it grows at different times and for different purposes.
@@AstonishingGlasgow True, many have been bombed or had wars, but Glasgow seems to have been self inflicted and not through growth. There seems to have been a decline with more motorways at the expense of its transport and architecture.
Glasgow was lucky that it had the canal to build on so not much architecture lost there. The area of Anderston was an obvious casualty and the city did lose some amazing buildings as the M8 carved its way towards Charring cross but on the upside it gained freedom from traffic gridlock and the pedestrianisation of Argyle, Buchanan and Sauchiehall streets which could not have happened without the motorway.
@@AstonishingGlasgow Yes, the motorway took away Townhead, Cowcaddens, Palimentary, Springburn, Kingston, Anderston and more. I believe 60% of the city is now gone. Areas like the the Gorbals suffered from bad maintenance and over population like the Glasgow old town. High Street down to the Saltmarket are next on the cards.
May I suggest the history of the Harbour Tunnel as a vid ?
Would be great but I think its been filled in now.
5:24
The Six Million Dollar Man !!
Lucky if I am the six dollar man :-D
Good Stuff (y), Molendinar burn?
Cracking idea.
I used to play in that when I was a kid in the late fifties and early sixties lived roystonhill at the castle st end
Whatever happened to Craigbank?
There is no S in the name. It is the Monkland Canal.