The Falkirk Wheel (Scottish Gaelic: Cuibhle na h-Eaglaise Brice) is a rotating boat lift in Tamfourhill, Falkirk, in central Scotland, connecting the Forth...
30 KB (3,349 words) - 16:29, 19 August 2024
now based in Edinburgh, produces the Falkirk Herald. Attractions in and around Falkirk include the Falkirk Wheel, The Helix, The Kelpies, Callendar House...
62 KB (5,957 words) - 23:04, 11 August 2024
and included the Falkirk Wheel, a 100-foot (30-metre) revolving boat lift that connects it to the Union Canal. By 2014, the Falkirk Wheel had become one...
9 KB (1,060 words) - 16:39, 20 February 2024
bears the image of Walter Scott on the obverse and a vignette of the Falkirk Wheel and The Kelpies on the reverse. Paper currency was introduced in Scotland...
6 KB (593 words) - 18:20, 1 June 2024
The Millennium Link project replaced the locks with a boat lift, the Falkirk Wheel. The project launch was in October 1994, and it received a grant of...
3 KB (257 words) - 05:02, 15 April 2022
only two working boat lifts in the United Kingdom; the other is the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland. Salt has been extracted from rock salt beds underneath...
21 KB (2,865 words) - 23:42, 10 October 2023
Union Canal (Scotland) (category Scheduled Ancient Monuments in Falkirk)
in 2001 and reconnected to the Forth and Clyde Canal in 2002 by the Falkirk Wheel. It is now in popular use for leisure purposes. The canal was conceived...
25 KB (2,330 words) - 15:41, 23 August 2024
The Kelpies (category Buildings and structures in Falkirk (council area))
including Edinburgh Airport, the Field Museum in Grant Park, Chicago, The Falkirk Wheel, Expo 2011 (Aberdeen), Expo 2012 (Edinburgh) and Expo 2013 (Glasgow)...
10 KB (1,005 words) - 15:08, 30 July 2024
Hutchesontown Area B housing estate, Gorbals, Glasgow, United Kingdom Falkirk Wheel, Falkirk, United Kingdom University of Strathclyde campus masterplan, Glasgow...
11 KB (1,059 words) - 12:15, 11 July 2024
moving, like the Anderton boat lift in England, rotational, like the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland, or operate on an inclined plane, like the Ronquières inclined...
15 KB (845 words) - 14:54, 25 January 2024