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This branch off the main Forth to Clyde Canal leads to Port Dundas, and was built in 1786-90
©Chris Upson
©Chris Upson
©Chris Upson
Dist:0.2km<br/>This mural, inscribed with the motto "Our Canal Our Future", is dated 1996. It has clearly suffered considerable weathering since then.
©Mark Nightingale
Dist:0.2km<br/>The Forth and Clyde Canal at Ruchill Street Maryhill. The building by the canal houses the Social Services Department.
©Paul McIlroy
Dist:0.3km<br/>The design of these modern residential blocks (viewed here from the Forth and Clyde Canal towpath) is apparently influenced by the Dutch artist the complex is named after. Is this a landmark exercise in gentrification or a future ghetto?
©Mark Nightingale
Dist:0.3km<br/>This is a view over a branch of the Forth and Clyde Canal, looking towards the buildings of Shuna Crescent. These are part of a colourful new housing development whose look is inspired by the later works of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (see [[1515106]]). When this photograph was taken, construction was still taking place elsewhere on the site. - - &#8226; - - As noted at [[140507]], this new development is on land that had formerly been occupied by industrial buildings. Early OS maps show that, at the end of the nineteenth century, the area of this housing development was the location of (from west to east) a chemical works, a rubber works, a gold extracting works, and Caledonia Foundry. The "chemical works" was Glasgow Lead and Colour Works; see http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/259600/digital_images/glasgow 50 56 ruchill street glasgow lead and colour works/ (at Canmore) for images. The "rubber works" was Glasgow Rubber Works, established by George McLellan and Co., and shown on later OS maps as "Glasgow Rubber and Asbestos Works". See http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/127638/details/glasgow 125 129 shuna street glasgow rubber works/ (at Canmore) for images and for further details. The "gold extracting works" was operated by the Cassel Gold Extracting Company, and used the MacArthur-Forrest process, or "cyanide process"; the use of this process to extract gold from low-quality ore was then new. The company had acquired patent rights to this process, but these would prove to be the subject of much litigation: see http://archives.balliol.ox.ac.uk/Modern Papers/macarthur.asp (at the Balliol College Archives). An OS map from 1913 shows that the works had expanded to the north-east; on that map, the site is labelled "Cassel Cyanide Works". The last of the above-mentioned works was Caledonia Foundry; this was operated by Kerr and Co., Ltd. See http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/174589/details/glasgow 35 9 shuna street caledonia foundry/ (at Canmore) for images of the foundry building. The company had earlier been based at Firhill; further details can be found at http://www.scottishironwork.org/historicaltable.htm (Scottish Ironwork Foundation).
©Lairich Rig
Dist:0.3km<br/>Large development being built on the site of the old McLellan rubber works on Shuna Street.
©Iain McFadyen
Dist:0.3km<br/>Located directly behind a bingo hall in Maryhill is this rather imposing sandstone structure. Its reason for being there isn't apparent unless you check out the OS Map. This was part of the Glasgow Central Railway, that ran from Stobcross Junction to Maryhill Central via the Botanic Gardens. Above is the Forth & Clyde canal, and the keystone of the railway tunnel can be seen behind the foliage. The tunnel's south portal has simply been stopped up with earth when the car park and bingo hall were built. The line was closed to passengers in 1959, and finally closed to freight in 1964. The tunnel mouth was eventually closed off in 1988.
©Raymond Okonski
Dist:0.4km<br/>This bridge carries the Forth and Clyde Canal across Bilsland Drive
©Paul McIlroy
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©Stephen Sweeney
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©David Dixon
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©David Dixon
Dist:0.5km<br/>From my office window
©Johnem
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking south down Maryhill Road in the direction of Glasgow City Centre at the crossroads with Bilsland Drive and Queen Margaret Drive.
©G Laird

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