IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Chapel Street Industrial Estate, GLASGOW, G20 9BQ

The traffic cones in the canal ensure that the fish keep in the correct lane. The Forth and Clyde Canal was completed in 1790 and it provided a route for vessels between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde at the narrowest part (35 miles, 56km) of the Scottish Lowlands. Closed in 1963, the canal became semi-derelict. Millennium funds were used to regenerate the canal. The Glasgow Branch of the canal is a Scheduled Monument with details at: http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM6771

Part of the Chapel Street Industrial Estate.

The unit on the left is occupied by the Glasgow Access Panel (GAP), a registered charity (charity number SCO36531). Their aim is to improve the accessibility of services, buildings, facilities and information across Glasgow for all disabled people. See http://www.glasgowaccesspanel.org.uk/. The adjoining unit is occupied by Two Player Print, a custom T-shirt store.

Chapel Street is a small industrial estate with a variety of businesses based there.

Seen from the Ruchill Street bridge. The building on the right was part of the Glasgow Lead and Colour Works.

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.

This was the afternoon before the 2019 AGM. View from Ruchill Street bridge looking north.

Bar and nightclub at the corner of Maryhill Road and Ruchill Street.

This picture is intended to complement Mark Nightingale's photograph: Image The present picture (a scan from 35mm film) is one that I took about seven years earlier, when the mural, which was created by schoolchildren in 1996, was better exposed to view. The mural is on the north-eastern bank of the canal (Image), just to the north-west of Ruchill Bridge. See Image for later changes.