Port Dundas
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Port Dundas is an area of Glasgow, Scotland, located 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north of the city centre. It lies to the north of Cowcaddens, and to the west of Sighthill, with Hamiltonhill and Possilpark to the north-west.
Speirs Wharf was originally the offices of the Forth & Clyde Navigation Co. and the City of Glasgow Grain Mills and Stores built for John Currie & Co. in 1851. The buildings were converted in 1989 into 150 loft-style residential apartments, a private leisure centre, and 19 commercial units.
Illustration of 'Notable High Buildings' in Rand McNally's' Universal Atlas of The World (1896), featuring the Port Dundas chimney at #7
Diageo Port Dundas Grain Distillery.
Forth and Clyde Canal
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The Forth and Clyde Canal is a canal opened in 1790, crossing central Scotland; it provided a route for the seagoing vessels of the day between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde at the narrowest part of the Scottish Lowlands. This allowed navigation from Edinburgh on the east coast to the port of Glasgow on the west coast. The canal is 35 miles (56 km) long and it runs from the River Carron at Grangemouth to the River Clyde at Bowling, and had an important basin at Port Dundas in Glasgow.
The Forth and Clyde Canal, near Bonnybridge and Larbert
Bar Hill and Twechar with Kilsyth and Croy in the background
The branch within Glasgow from Maryhill to Port Dundas, showing Ruchill Church.
The unique Drop Lock at Dalmuir takes boats below a fixed bridge.