End of an era (Print 2465021) Blackout taken in 1959

taken in 1959

You just hoped your suit was still wearable by the time you'd finally cleared the bill

he could have done with a bunnet

and they'd all be singing long before they crossed the city boundary

There is a happy land

End of an era (Print 2465021) Blackout taken in 1959It was the end of one industrial era and the coming of the car age that saw the end on the Monkland Canal. Built between 1771 and 1794, the idea of famed inventor James Watt, the canal was designed to bring Lanarkshire coal to the furnaces and hearths of Glasgow. Sadly, with the coming of the railways, it soon fell out of favour. By 1965, when this picture was taken, the Townhead stretch of the canal was already being filled in to create space for the