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The Falkirk Wheel

The same day we went to The Kelpies (see the two posts immediately previous to this) we also visited the Falkirk Wheel which is a rotating boat lift linking the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal, built using Millenium Fund money. (See Wikipedia’s article here.)

Boat coming down:-

Falkirk Wheel 1

Falkirk Wheel 2

Falkirk Wheel 3

Boat leaving lift:-
Falkirk Wheel 4

Other boat ascending:-
Falkirk Wheel 5

At the quayside were these maquettes of The Kelpies:-

Mini Kelpies at Falkirk Wheel

Two (very short) videos of the Wheel in motion:-

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