This one is about looking back a couple of years. I am learning how to put photos onto the site and I looked through to find one of interest. I thought this one of a couple of boats waiting to go through the newly re-opened canal Lock system at Maryhill would be of interest.
The boats are 'The Millenium' belonging to British Waterways and 'The Wee Spark' a one third replica of a west coast 'puffer'. Puffers were actually developed on the Forth and Clyde Canal at Kirkintilloch, and could just fit through the locks with a little bit of space to spare. They were built as ocean going inshore cargoe boats for the West of Scotland and became really famous as the boat in the 'Para Handy' books, and also the early 60's film 'The Maggie' - well worth watching if you can find a copy. [It gives a glimpse of a way of life which has now all but disappeared - the boats certainly have disappeared, although I believe there is one in the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine.]
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