Scotland, roughly along the line followed by the by along the line followed roughly Scotland, Forth and Clyde Canal. and Clyde Forth are not always verifiable. not always are A series of Roman forts are built across central are forts Roman of A series The sources and accuracy of these statements statements these of and accuracy The sources 142 AD142 1775 Work on canal construction stops due to lack of funds. lack of construction stops due to on canal Work OCTOBER 1999 Bennett’s pondweed is cultivated on discarded shopping trolleys in the canal at Applecross Street Basin. JULY 1790 Official opening of the Forth and Clyde Canal. 9. 12 AUGUST 2020 1890 Very heavy rainfall causes a 1830 Bennett’s pondweed is discovered in a timber basin on breach in the Union Canal, the Forth and Clyde Canal at Grangemouth. leading to its closure between Granite used in the Reservoir artworks is mined at artwork. Polmont and Muiravonside. Kirkmabreck Quarry, Creetown, Dumfries and Galloway, by Liverpool Docks Trustees. Reservoir MAY 1995 A pair of mute swans hatch five signets. DECEMBER 2015 10 JUNE 1768 Water in the Reservoir basins Sir Lawrence Dundas removes the first spade-full of earth to granite used in the granite freezes. begin construction of the Forth and Clyde Canal. Dumfries and Galloway. The cooled rock produces Dumfries and Galloway. the Volcanic action causes molten rock intrude in molten to action causes Volcanic 1867 400 MA (400 MILLION MA (400 400 AGO) YEARS Caledonian Railway buys the Forth and Clyde Canal. 1726 1913–17 Alexander Gordon surveys a possible route for a canal linking the Firth of Forth (east coast) and the Printer T.J. Cobden-Sanderson destroys Doves type Firth of Clyde (west coast) in central Scotland. by throwing the type along with its punches and 2010 matrices into the River Thames, following a dispute with his partner over rights. 1777 Glasgow Sculpture Studios opens Studios Sculpture in The Whisky Glasgow bonded hub in the former a creative Bond, Road. on Dawson warehouse is born. She will be named Tally, A labrador dog, the copestones into set ingot commemorated on an iron later. Canal six years and Clyde the Forth of DECEMBER Glasgow City merchants, including tobacco 2012 7 merchants John Glassford, John Ritchie and SEPTEMBER 1993 Alexander Spiers, raise money for a branch of the canal to Glasgow. Peccadillo, the first live-aboard barge on the canal 1960S in Glasgow since its closure in 1963, is berthed at Applecross Street basin by Minty Donald and Victoria Iron Works building is demolished. 8 MARCH 1768 Nick Millar. A bill is passed in British parliament to allow construction of the Forth and Clyde Canal. 1994 warehouse on the Forth and Clyde Canal at and Clyde on the Forth warehouse Highland Distilleries build a bonded Glasgow. Road, Dawson There is a fire at the bonded warehouse on 1957 OCTOBER 1997 Dawson Road, which was until recently used as a mushroom farm. Minty Donald and Nick Millar AUGUST 2020 sell Peccadillo and move to a flat in Garnethill, Glasgow. Minty Donald finishes 28 JUNE 2016 editing this book. An adult chironomida dies. OCTOBER 2018 2001 The Forth and Clyde Canal becomes part of North Glasgow The Forth and Clyde Canal is Integrated Water Management reopened to water traffic. System, a scheme in which the canal is used to absorb and manage excess water caused by heavy JUNE 1996 rainfall, and to mitigate flood risk. begins on the Millennium Link, a £84.5 Work and Clyde the Forth restore to million project Canals a navigable and reinstate and Union of coasts the east and west between waterway Scotland. central A pair of mute swans nest near Firhill basin. swans mute A pair of A dead alsatian dog is ‘buried’ in the canal by its owners. project project MARCH 1999 MARCH APRIL 1995 approximately forty centimetres. forty approximately The water level in the canal is lowered by by is lowered in the canal level The water NOVEMBER 2014 1963 1937 Doves type is retrieved from the River THEN/NOW Thames by designer Robert Green. Bennett’s pondweed is believed to have become extinct from the Forth and Clyde Canal. 2018/19 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015 Neil McGuire and Imogen Ayres design Ayres and Imogen Neil McGuire the for a new font The first residential boats berth at Thames Capsule,adapted from is which type. closely based on Doves new moorings on the Forth and Clyde Three public artworks (THEN/NOW) are Canal adjacent to The Whisky Bond. JUNE 2015 installed on the Forth and Clyde Canal. Glassford Street, named Street, after the Glassford who part- merchant tobacco wealthy temporarilycanal, is financed the as Street Hampton Fred renamed protest Matter a Black Lives part of involvement highlighting Glasgow’s trade. in the Atlantic slave JUNE 2017 5 JUNE 2020 MARCH 2020 APRIL 1995 The body of an elderly woman is found at One of the cyclists commemorated in an iron The canal is closed, except for Maryhill locks. ingot set into the copestones of the Forth and A temporary foundry is iron and operated erected of on the site Works. Iron the Victoria essential maintenance and support Clyde Canal dies of a heart attack. for residential boats, due to the 21 AUGUST 201521 AUGUST COVID-19 pandemic. MAY/JUNE 2020 2012 15 JULY 2015 24 JUNE 2016 Scottish Canals becomes the the name of canals, bodypublic Scotland’s responsible for operating previously of under the auspices British Waterways. The water level in the Forth and Clyde canal covers the lower edge of the ‘NOW’ lettering. Spud, a Clydesdale horse from Port William, An adult chironomida (dancing midge) JULY Dumfries and Galloway, pulls a canal work spawns from a larva (blood worm) living in 2 boat loaded with timber fifty-nine metres and the Reservoir rockpool. closed as a navigable waterway. closed as a navigable The Forth and Clyde Canal is and Clyde The Forth six hundred centimetres along the canal in two minutes. 1 JANUARY 1963 1 JANUARY.