FALKIRK WHEEL ON 16TH DECEMBER 2001.

These photos were taken by John Foster who has kindly agreed to let me put them on my web site. Thanks a lot,  John. John sent me 25 excellent photos and I thought they were so good that the only ones I have left out are where Iain had  taken one of the same view.

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The view as we approached the wheel

  

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Looking up to the aqueduct

 

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Inside the visitor centre
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Compare the size of the people at the bottom of the wheel

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A caisson

 

 

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Looking over the bottom lock towards the wheel

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From the picnic area

 

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The bit in the foreground will be the basin at the foot of the wheel

 
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Showing the front of the visitor centre

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The "back" of the wheel

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From underneath the aqueduct
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This show the lovely wood at the back of the visitor centre

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At the top lock

 

  

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Looking from the top lock back along the Union canal - this is all new canal

 
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A side view of the aqueduct

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The "beak" of the wheel towering over the vistor centre

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The inside of a caisson. Note the bollards along the sides and the sealing "gates"
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Looking along the aqueduct, bollards here too.

    

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