Park
Maryhill Locks
Five-lock flight of a Georgian canal stepping down a hillside beside a great stone aqueduct.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Maryhill Locks in Glasgow starts with an estimate and a final bill for the Kelvin Aqueduct next door, and the canal company that had to find the difference. It follows engineer Robert Whitworth and contractor John Muir through the building of the flight in the seventeen eighties, then the long fade of the Forth and Clyde Canal in the twentieth century. Stand by the lock gates, where boats still step up and down the hill.
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