Canal and heavy industry expert Guthrie Hutton revisits Lanarkshire�s Monkland Canal which brought coal to Glasgow and kick-started the Coatbridge iron industry and, as the title suggests, made everybody involved plenty of money. Naturally the book contains lots of images of formerly grimier parts of Glasgow�s East End and of the Monklands area of Glasgow but there are also sylvan scenes like at Easterhouse which in the past was rural and post-war was built-up. Today much of the canal route is underneath the M8 Motorway and hence no longer open to navigation, at least not in the traditional meaning of the word!
