This early aerial photo is of course Bothwell Castle. You can just about make out the other parts of the castle which formed an outer keep. The River Clyde snakes though the photo with Blantyre priory just coming into view at the very top right.
Remarkable as this picture is, my reason for posting is actually to draw your attention to the far left hand side. In the decade previous to this photo, the manmade Priory Bing for the Priory Pit had collapsed in the late 1940s into the Clyde! As you can see, it catastrophically spilled into halfway across the river, with the material below water level having to be dredged to avoid a complete block.
Today, that part of the river is still narrower and a young woodland has sprung up on the sloping debris. #Bothwellcastle#RiverClyde
👍🏻 cool✅