Scottish Visitor Attractions |
1. New Lanark -
Robert Owen's Mill Museum |
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Robert Owen's restored New Lanark Mill complex:
reception (left) and private dwellings (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm
McCrow |
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Where once ropes connected the waterwheel to
the water powered looms in the mill is now a glass covered walkway from the
reception area to the mill (left). People still live in the
restored houses in New Lanark and there is also an hotel
(right) - PHOTOs
Malcolm McCrow |
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Working ppower loom in Mill #3 at New Lanark -
PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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View from the Roof Garden on Mill #3 (left);
restored school room (right) - Malcolm McCrow |
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River Clyde at New Lanark (left);
New Lanark Mill #3 (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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New Lanark Church (left); Robert
Owen's house (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
2. The Falkirk Wheel |
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Tourist boat on the left is descending while
the one on the right ascends - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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The Falkirk Wheel has replaced the many locks
that were required to join the Union Canal to the Forth and Clyde Canal -
PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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Heading out of the Wheel towards the
substantial tunnel where the tourist boats turn in the basin below a series
of locks on the Forth and Clyde Canal - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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Returning to the Falkirk Wheel on the Union
Canal through the tunnel from the Forth and Clyde Canal
- PHOTOs Malcolm
McCrow |
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Holiday barges and other pleasure craft also
use the Wheel - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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The Forth and Clyde Canal with Rosebank
Distillery in the background - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
3. Summerlee Museum
of Scottish Industrial Life, Coatbridge |
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South African Railways
(Suid Afrikaanse Spoorwee Garratt locomotive 4-8-2+2-8-4 #4112 (Springbok) built by the North
British Locomotive Works at Springburn (Hyde Park Works) under subcontract
from Beyer Peacock of
Manchester. Regretfully, through lack of funds, the locomotive is in
extremely poor condition - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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Miners' houses at Summerlee (above) have been
restored, but the modern windows on the attic extension rather spoils the
period effect. Wash house with boiler and old fashioned mangles
(right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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1940s and 1960s recalled in the living rooms of some of the
houses - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
Scotland |