BroadScot Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Hi folks, While away at the weekend at Linlithgow, I sent out the happy snapper SWMBO with her sister to a new attraction up here The Kelpies. You can see these amazing pieces of engineering as you drive along the M9, 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted August 14, 2014 Author Share Posted August 14, 2014 Ah I was just about to do that also Dave. Ta Muchly. Iain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted August 14, 2014 Author Share Posted August 14, 2014 Just to add, its that new, all the car parking is not complete yet. It has proved a victim of its own success. The Visitor Centre will open next year. Iain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranworthbreeze Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Hello Iain, Wow!!!! Thank you for sharing this this wonderful attraction. This is a work of art unlike the rusty item the "Angel of the North" The design and enginineering is first class and the link that Dave included is well worth a look if only for the time lapse construction video. Oh I wish it had been completed whilst we were up there last year, looks like a trip might be on the cards again. Regards Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted August 14, 2014 Author Share Posted August 14, 2014 Hi Alan, Aye do return, but I wid give it time to settle down, By all accounts just now its manic at weekends. Don't go near it if Falkirk FC have a home game, its busy enough without football traffic. The sign at the visitors attraction says..."Hawd yer Horses" lol .All will come to those that wait, I guess. Iain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted September 1, 2014 Author Share Posted September 1, 2014 Hi Alan, An Update... I was there again today with the man who was involved in the Kelpies Project, as he used to work for Falkirk Distrct Council. Apparently the original idea was to use the Kelpies as a means of opening a lock. The budget though, and the engineering involved meant it did not proceed. The biggest surprise to the council has been the visitor numbers to the Falkirk Wheel. Well over a million at the last count. Also today, at the Kelpies, considering schools are back in, there was a steady stream of folks going to it. Iain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranworthbreeze Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Hi Iain,I am surprised that the visitors going to the Falkirk Wheel is only a million, the site was very busy on the three days that we went on site.The first time was via car to check out the wheel and where we had to go to collect the boat, The office was inside the complex but the boats were moored on the canal below the wheels basin lower lock.Where about is the location of the Kelpies in relation to the wheel.I assume they must be nearer to the centre of Falkirk, we had to go down to the next lock in order to turn around the boat before returning to the boat yard.RegardsAlan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranworthbreeze Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Hi Iain,I have found this location map.http://www.thekelpies.co.uk/locationBy the looks of it we would have had to go down several locks to get down to the Kelpies.RegardsAlan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted September 1, 2014 Author Share Posted September 1, 2014 Hi Alan, Its nearer Grangemouth than Falkirk I would say, but, in saying that, there is I think access from Falkirk Football Club Stadium. Personally when its all finished it will be a massive attraction. I only walked a short step towards it, as my arthritis was being norty today. Yes, I agree with the Million figure, it does sound very low IMHO like your goodself. Iain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted September 1, 2014 Author Share Posted September 1, 2014 Hi Alan, Stop Press!!! SWMBO just off the phone to a friend who said when they went to see the Kelpies last week, a film crew was there with Timothy West and Prunela Scales. Watch this space ! Iain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxwellian Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 That sounds good. I enjoyed watching their series on the canals. Looking forward to it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 Here are a couple I took from a distance yesterday, the old legs widny go any further. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranworthbreeze Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Hi Iain, I will say it again, truely amazing!!! Regards Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 Hi Alan, Agreed, I have lots more pics SWMBO took yesterday , but feel its not fair on folks who may wish to go and see it for themselves if up here on holiday. Iain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted April 3, 2015 Author Share Posted April 3, 2015 Bump, I have dragged this thread up as DonnyGeoff, will be "sunbathing" on these waters this weekend. Looks like he has selected the best area for good weather. Make that factor 15 Geoff looking at the weekend forecast for the Central Belt! Have a safe journey and a great time in Scotland. Iain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deebee29 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Hi Iain Thanks for this, i do believe they may be featured on tomorrow nights Canal Journeys with Tim & Pru. They were also featured a few weeks ago on the Andrew (Freddie ) Flintoff series on Sky called Lord of thr Fries where he and a friend travelled the country in a fish and chip van in aid of charity cooking fish and chips at the various attractions. Sounds crazy i know but it was a quite amusing series. Alan I could get offended (joke) if you continue to insult Rusty Rita ..... Its almost on my doorstep.... Actually we have warmed to it over the years. David Edited to add the Falkirk wheel was also featured in the Flintoff program Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted April 3, 2015 Author Share Posted April 3, 2015 Here was me thinking David she had her arms out waiting to test sample new deoderants! Only joking! Iain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deebee29 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 In days gone by when the area was all pit heaps you wouldnt have been far wrong Iain 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted April 3, 2015 Author Share Posted April 3, 2015 Hopefully David, Geoff will use his Kodak Box Brownie camera, and take a few pics as they enter the wheel. Later this year, hopefully, I am taking friends up to see them, as he is not allowed to drive now, and his good lady will not drive though Glasgow. Iain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deebee29 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Yes it would be good to see some pics I can see your friends wife's point having driven though Glasgow myself (some years ago ) mind you compared to driving around the centre of Paris it was like a country drive Give me a boat any day David 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranworthbreeze Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Hello David, Canal Journeys is on Sunday at 8.00pm or 9.00 on 4 + 1. We will be watching the programme with interest especially the Kelpies which would have been in construction when we were there two years ago, sadly at the time we were unaware of them. Regards Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted April 3, 2015 Author Share Posted April 3, 2015 Not on till Sunday 9pm up here Alan on a Sky Box Iain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deebee29 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Yes Canal journeys is on Sunday up here as well... Got it set on sky plus so I won't miss it Thanks David 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranworthbreeze Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Hi Iain, I have edited my post, I must stop listening to Tan she said Canal Journeys but meant the John Sargent canal programme, muppetry or what! Regards Alan 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffandWendy Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 The Kelpies are an amazing piece of sculpture. It seems that a lot of places are erecting sculptures these days, which I think the Angel of the North, started the trend, but one I always look out for, when travelling down the M5, is The Wicker Man in Somerset. Someone set fire to the original one about three years after it was built, so the one you see today is a complete rebuild. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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