Molendinar Burn

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Postby duck » Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:01 pm

I'm a bit lost here alex - is that building on the right the Great Eastern? In which case the car park would be my old playground at St Kent's- we used to chuck our ball over tha wall during break then ask if we could go and recover it - which meant sneaking down the tunnel!!
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Postby glasgowken » Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:15 pm

Is that the school that became Ladywell ? I think it's some sort of business centre now.
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Postby Smartalex » Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:34 pm

It is the Great Eastern on the right, and it is now a Business Centre of some sorts,
In this other photo you can still see the original tunnel in the right hand corner and also the conversion work to the rear of the School which still has it's spire:-
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Postby HollowHorn » Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:07 pm

Painting of the cathedral from the Molendinar Burn, painted pre-1840
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Boys playing in sewage on the Molendinar 1910

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Postby Sydney Rosewater » Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:30 am

HollowHorn wrote:Painting of the cathedral from the Molendinar Burn, painted pre-1840
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Boys playing in sewage on the Molendinar 1910

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This thread is grand!
Is that tunnell in the last photo the same one next to grt eastern?
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Postby HollowHorn » Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:32 am

Sydney Rosewater wrote:Is that tunnell in the last photo the same one next to great eastern?

That is my gut feeling, SR.
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Postby Sydney Rosewater » Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:04 am

Although I look at it again, and the old photo has a kind've band across the stonework a cople of feet above the arch which the recent ones don't have.
It's must've been the "where is this thread" of last month that has made me spot his sorta thing!
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Postby duck » Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:54 am

At first view I thought it was the one next to the Great Eastern too, but when we used to kick our ball over the wall it was an excuse to walk down the tunnel. You could walk so far before it turned sharp left - I suppose going down to the Clyde. But in this photo there is no ledge to walk along and we certainly didn't walk in the burn itself. ( but it was 30 odd years ago!!!!)
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Postby HollowHorn » Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:14 pm

Both pics courtesy of the wondeful Virtual Mitchell, I hasten to add :wink:
http://www.mitchelllibrary.org/
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Postby Stuart » Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:56 pm

Apologies for this image being "currently unavailable" in my previous post.

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Oh, and this one too.

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Almost certainly due to my incompetence in the Flickr department :oops:

Anyway, no lasting damage. Thank you for your cooperation.
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Postby HollowHorn » Mon Sep 17, 2007 4:14 pm

Photograph of the Molendinar from the Drygate looking north, from an album of views of Glasgow. The Molendinar is one of several burns in the Glasgow area. It runs from Hogganfield Loch in the north down to the River Clyde. The water used to be pure enough for use in the ale industry, but the growth of other industries in its vicinity led to its pollution. It was eventually covered over. This photograph was taken looking north towards Glasgow Cathedral. The Cathedral's spire is visible on the left; the famous chimney stack of Tennant's St. Rollox chemical works is to its right; and the monuments in the Necropolis are to the right.



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And looking south:
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Both pics from the Glasgow University Collection
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Re: Molendinar Burn

Postby Vinegar Tom » Thu Aug 28, 2008 11:06 pm

I have searched this thread and found lots of photos unavailable.Apologies for repetition:
Molindinar at Fordneuk Street

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Re: Molendinar Burn

Postby thegazman » Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:40 pm

Vinegar Tom wrote:I have searched this thread and found lots of photos unavailable.Apologies for repetition:
Molindinar at Fordneuk Street

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I could be wrong Vinegar Tom but is this not part of the Camlachie burn? :?:
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Re: Molendinar Burn

Postby Vinegar Tom » Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:04 pm

thegazman wrote:
Vinegar Tom wrote:I have searched this thread and found lots of photos unavailable.Apologies for repetition:
Molindinar at Fordneuk Street

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I could be wrong Vinegar Tom but is this not part of the Camlachie burn? :?:


gazman , you are not wrong. It's me that has been in error here :oops: . No wonder I couldn't find similar pictures on this thread.
Thanks for pointing that out.

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Re: Molendinar Burn

Postby thegazman » Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:28 pm

THANKYOU My friend
As i didnt know this part of the burn was here 8)
Cheers
p.s where is your map image from?
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