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They were grim days when children like Margaret King, just 12 years old, could be cast aside by their family to find their own way in the world.
KNEE deep in sludge, in a watery tip where everything from rusting cars to kitchen sinks lurked – even, bizarrely, a child’s coffin – a small group of enthusiasts rolled up their sleeves to begin a mammoth clean-up job. No longer the once bustling water motorway that saw sea-going vessels and barges transport everything from crops to livestock, to passengers from the port of Grangemouth to the heart of Glasgow, the world’s first man-made sea to sea ship canal, the Forth & Clyde, was in its death throes. Opened in 1790 to serve the industrial revolution and closed in 1963, the wa...