Falkirk Wheel

AS SEEN ON SKYEYE BRITAIN - LAUNCHING IN EARLY 2013! - This is canal engineering brought bang up to date in a spectacular rotating boat lift. By the 1930s eleven locks, which joined the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals, had been filled in and built on. In a millennium project to link the two canals again the futuristic wheel won the competition, and was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 2002.
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