Two hundred years of the towpath
The Forth & Clyde Canal, the harbour at Bowling, and the building that kept the record of everything that passed its door.
The Forth & Clyde Canal opened in 1790, the first waterway to cut clean across the country and join the east coast to the west. For the first time a ship could pass between the North Sea and the Atlantic without rounding the top of Scotland. Thirty-five miles of still water carried coal, grain and…