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Viewed from Harrison Park
©Eleanor Graham
Looking towards Harrison Gardens - with back to the union canal
©Eleanor Graham
Harrison Park is bordered by the union canal in the Shandon area of Edinburgh
©Eleanor Graham
Until recently an isolated fragment of canal behind filled in sections. It has now been reunited with the rest of the canal and, through the Falkirk Wheel, connected to the Forth Clyde Canal. It is now possible to cross Scotland by canal unimpeded. Merchiston is one of the "leafiest" of the "leafy" suburbs.
©Richard Webb
By the middle of February 2008 the contractors dredging the Union Canal were working in the Allan Park area, between Slateford and Craiglockhart, but the dredged mud was still being transferred from barge to lorry near the Leamington Lift Bridge in Edinburgh. This necessitated a steady stream of tugs propelling hopper barges over the intervening 2½ miles. Here "Dignity" is proceeding eastwards with a full barge and passes "Scaup" returning for another load. The difference in freeboard between full and empty barges is most noticeable.
©A-M-Jervis
At the junction of Polwarth Terrace and Grays Loan. This is one of the ex-airmail boxes used in the 1930's which were originally painted dark blue. There were 4 airmail pillar boxes in Edinburgh, one is in a private collection and the other three are still in use today.
©michael ely
©Christine Johnstone
There is an art to rowing a boat in a straight line! Just west of Ashley Terrace bridge, Edinburgh, groups of foreign students from a local language school amuse themselves in rowing boats on the Union Canal and head roughly in the direction of Craiglockhart. It can be reported that all returned safely to dry land.
©A-M-Jervis
Dist:0.1km<br/>Boat shed belonging to the canal society.
©Callum Black
Dist:0.1km<br/>Where Ashley Terrace crosses the Union Canal.
©James Allan
Dist:0.1km<br/>Looking along Colinton Road, in the city outskirts.
©Mary and Angus Hogg
Dist:0.1km<br/>It nears Christmas Day at the boathouse, and the wooden walls are bright With life belts orange (no holly), and the place is a pleasant sight.
©A-M-Jervis
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©kim traynor
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©kim traynor
Dist:0.1km<br/>The bridge was built in 1904.
©kim traynor

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