The Port-Dundas Canal

A walk along the Forth and Clyde Canal from the Kelvin Aqueduct to Speirs Wharf at Port Dundas, mostly taking in the spur between the Stockingfield Junction and Port Dundas. The video is titled, 'The Port-Dundas Canal' after a playful Victorian song about this section of the canal. Along the way we examine old maps and photographs to glimpse the canal in its heyday. We look at the Kelvin Aqueduct that carries the canal over the River Kelvin, pause at the five locks at Maryhill, and look at another of the many aqueducts along the canal's length, this time as it crosses Maryhill Road. We then pass major engineering works at the Stockingfield Junction, where a new foot and cycleway is under construction, and continue to Firhill Football Stadium, home of Partick Thistle, where a portion of one stand sports a 'crowd' of football supporter cut-outs, there in place for the Covid Pandemic. At Old Basin we closely examine the exact location of the Old Basin Tavern, making good use of old maps, documents and photographs to prove that it is not quite where information-panels would have us believe, then finish at Speirs Wharf with the song, 'The Port-Dundas Canal'.