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THE FALKIRK WHEEL It was the largest engineering ROSEBANK DISTILLERY INDUSTRIAL HEARTLAND The world’s first and only project for the Millennium The building across the In the mid-1800s, this area rotating boat lift. Link project to reconnect canal is Rosebank Distillery. was a noisy centre of industry, the canals from Glasgow to It operated for more than bustling with boats importing This GENIUS engineering Edinburgh, and coast to coast. 150 years, producing one of and exporting a huge range solution connects The Forth Scotland’s finest Lowland of materials and shaping & Clyde and Union Canal, whiskies. Rosebank’s position the life along the canal. replacing the original flight 2 on the canal was ideal, of 11 locks took over a allowing raw materials and Mr McAuley’s Vinegar day to transit. It now only THE PORTRAIT BENCH coal to be received and Works stood close to Lock 5. takes four minutes! Part of a national public whisky to be dispatched. Fish and chips were not yet A transport artery art project undertaken by a staple of the Scottish diet, Since opening in 2002, millions sustainable transport charity, The sculptures standing tall but vinegar was widely used as of visitors from all over the Sustrans, and Scottish Canals, and proud celebrate the iconic a flavouring and preservative of the Industrial Revolution, world have come to marvel at and supported by the Big bottle shape of one of the – and to mask bad smells at Lottery Fund, the bench features this working sculpture which Rosebank’s most celebrated, a timeAbbots of poor Rd sanitation. the Forth & Clyde Canal, combines modern engineering Robert Barr of Barr Soft Drinks, single malt whiskies. and technology with ancient the makers of Scotland’s ‘other The three bottles reflect principles set out by Archimedes national drink’ IRN-BRU; the triple-distillation process 5 was completed in Dr Harold Lyon, the founder 1790 more than 200 years ago. used to produce one of the of Strathcarron Hospice near finest – if not the finest – THE KELPIES making it Scotland’s The Wheel’s iconic design Denny; and Reg Adams MBE, Lowland malt. From here, The Kelpies form the dramatic has been judged alongside former coach with Grangemouth this famous drop was eastern gateway to the Forth the likes of the Hoover Dam Amateur Swimming Club. exported to the world & Clyde Canal. At 100 feet oldest canal. and The Channel Tunnel, via the canal. high, they are the largest as one of the most significant The trio fought off the likes equine sculptures in the world. civil engineering projects of of William Wallace to make Scottish sculptor, Andy Scott, A truly genius feat of engineering, designed the last hundred years. it onto the bench after locals designed the Kelpies to serve as by John Smeaton, the Forth & Clyde Canal connects voted on a shortlist compiled a tribute to the horse-powered by pupils at Bainsford Primary heritage of our nation’s canals. the Irish Sea in the east to the North Sea in the west. and St Mungo’s High Schools.