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Approaching the Erskine Bridge along the canal towpath, now a cycle path (NCN 7)

The steps shown here lead up to an old footbridge across a now Image; the footbridge gives access to the footpath and cycle route that runs along the south-western side of the Image The canal is less than 60 metres from the base of the steps. These steps stand alongside the path that is shown in Image The footbridge itself was built in the late nineteenth century, but the structures that are shown in the present photograph will have been built (or at least modified) later, in connection with the fuel depot.

The towpath carries a long established cycle path from Glasgow to Balloch. Approaching the Erskine Bridge along a well wooded section of the canal.

This site stored and pumped oil for naval vessels. It was out of use when seen and is now long since demolished. This shows the boiler house that both kept the oil warm and drove the steam pumping engines in two separate pump houses. I only saw the main Worthington pump house but not the Hall's pump house. This shows three boilers that are essentially land based Scotch marine boilers.

Dense, largely ash woodland between the canal and the site of a fuel depot.

Two of the three 1918 Worthington-Simpson pumps in No. 1 pump house.

MOD fuel oil pumping station. Plant dated from 1918, stopped 1982 and scrapped around 1991-4. This part of the station contained three Worthington-Simpson non-rotative steam pumping engines.

The pipeline visible at the right-hand edge of the picture appeared to be leading towards the northern end of the rectangular pit that is shown in Image

The concrete base of one of the buildings of the depot appears in the foreground. Just beyond the line of trees in the middle distance is the course of the dismantled Lanarkshire and Dumbarton railway line (see, for example, Image). Just beyond that is the Forth and Clyde Canal (see the map).