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Title: MONKLAND CANAL 1960

Reference number: 10215

Date: 1960

Director: filmed by Louise Annand

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 6.21 mins

Description: A snapshot in time of Monklands Canal in 1960. The canal was built in order to used to transport coal originally, but was largely filled in to make way for the M8 motorway construction and developments to Coatbridge in the 1960s.

Two beautiful, short sections of Monkland Canal are still visible in 2020, at Drumpellier Country Park and Summerlee Heritage Museum, both in Coatbridge.

For more information, see https://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/heritage/monkland-canal/ [last accessed 29/07/2020]

Credits: by Louise Annand

Shotlist: title (0.30) swan on the water, men and young man with dog at Monklands Canal. Bride, mother and young son at canal swing bridge, sign: 'No. Spiers Wharf”; warehouse building along the canalside; large cooling tower; old derelict buildings; folk walking along canalside [@105ft film gets darker slightly underdeveloped]; litter, rubbish in the canal water, types wheels, building of new tenement blocks in brick; three young boys playing canalside and posing for the camera; building with sign: “White Brig Vaults”; panning shot of canal embankments, rain on the water, gas tank, power pylons, railway overbridge, camera shots framing rubbish in the canal water; hot water discharging into canalwater.