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Ribbon of Light
Our feature magazine containing articles about the Falkirk area, the canal network and other stories of interest. (ribbon of light is a 'romantic' name for the canal as seen from above - 'zif you didn't already know that.. )
Issue 1
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| History & Legend - Step Back in Time |
History & Legend - Step back in time
 Falkirk District is an area truly steeped in tradition; an area where many of the most influential characters in the history of Scotland left their mark.
William Wallace, Edward 1, John Knox, Mary Queen of Scots, Oliver Cromwell, the Young Pretender, James Watt, and many others, had course to take the road to Falkirk.
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| Restoration: The Engineering Challenge |
Restoration: The Engineering Challenge
.jpg) Completing the Millennium Link, bringing 110 km (69 miles) of canal and towpath back to life by Easter 2001 will involve: removing 33 obstructions, including 1.7km which has been infilled at Wester Hailes on the outskirts of Edinburgh - dredging - renovating old locks and bridges repairing the banks - constructing a new link to the River Carron at Grangemouth - improving the towpaths - reconnecting the two canals a...
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| First Glimpse of the Falkirk Wheel |
A First Glimpse of the Falkirk Wheel
The magnificent Falkirk Wheel opened in May of 2002 and these images show the final stages of the construction as the Wheel turns for the first time and the commissioning phase of the project begins.
 Travelling from Camelon toward Bonnybridge we find the new aqueduct popping above the tree line and giving us the first glimpse of the 'Wheel'.
The new aqueduct connects The Falkirk Wheel with the Union canal via a tunnel under t...
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| Jock Leyden |
Jock Leyden
Staff and pupils at Grangemouth High have put together an exhibition celebrating the life and work of the late Jock Leyden.
Rector Gerry Docherty decided to display some of the celebrated cartoonist's work after learning of his sad death.
Leyden, who was born and raised in Grangemouth, left Scotland at the age of just 18 to live in South Africa. After initially finding work as a lithographic artist in the printing trade, Leyden was later taken on by a daily newspaper in Durban. He soon bec...
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| The Falkirk Wheel - An Engineering Masterpiece |
The Falkirk Wheel - An Engineering Masterpiece
A Mechanical Marvel
This magnificent, mechanical marvel has been constructed to 21st Century, state-of-the-art engineering and it is already being recognised as an iconic landmark worthy of Scotland's traditional engineering expertise. The Falkirk Wheel is the world's only rotating Boat Lift and is used to connect the Forth & Clyde and Union canals in central Scotland.
Designed to replace a series of lock gates built in the 19th Century - long since demolished and replaced by housing - ...
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| John Logie Baird |
John Logie Baird
The first ever television broadcast was made from a little cafe in Falkirk John Logie Baird and John Hart demonstrated a prototype of the television camera and transmitter to an audience in the Temperance Cafe. Included in this audience was Mr. Robert Shaw who indeed became the first publicly televised face that appeared on that flickering screen..
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| The Solitary Wave |
The Solitary Wave
The phenomenon of the Soliton, or single wave, one of the principles behind optoelectronics was first demonstrated by John Scott Russell on the Union Canal in 1838
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| Burke & Hare |
Burke & Hare
THE STORY OF BURKE AND HARE Being a brief account of the regular system of murder carried on in the West Port of Edinburgh between the Christmas of 1827 and October 1828.
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