The Crawley Aqueduct.

I’m way behind with my blips at the moment but will try to catch up - slowly,

This view of a long thin field, one of many in the locality, is a very familiar one to the Roslin populace. Today, it was the subject of a (very) small exhibition in Penicuik Town Hall and,  having lived in the village for 36 years, I discovered that they are the remains of the Crawley Viaduct (about which the internet in general, and Wikipedia in particular, are completely ignorant). It was a waterway in the form of a covered canal from the filter beds at Glencorse Reservoir to Edinburgh (a distance of about nine miles) completed by Thomas Telford and a Mr Jardine in 1822. The route can still be followed as far as Liberton holding tanks (that still exist) on the outskirts of Edinburgh apart, that is, from the area destroyed by the building of IKEA but, in parts, the path is badly overgrown. It was probably Britain’s earliest large scale water supply.
As Spike Milligan’s alter-ego, Eccles, was known to say, “You learn something new every day.”

I’ve just posted yesterday’s “Barber Shop Quartet.”