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Freelands Crescent, GLASGOW, G60 5DY

The towpath carries a long established cycle path from Glasgow to Balloch. Approaching the Erskine Bridge along a well wooded section of the canal.

Dense, largely ash woodland between the canal and the site of a fuel depot.

The steps shown here lead up to an old footbridge across a now Image; the footbridge gives access to the footpath and cycle route that runs along the south-western side of the Image The canal is less than 60 metres from the base of the steps. These steps stand alongside the path that is shown in Image The footbridge itself was built in the late nineteenth century, but the structures that are shown in the present photograph will have been built (or at least modified) later, in connection with the fuel depot.

This site stored and pumped oil for naval vessels. It was out of use when seen and is now long since demolished. This shows the boiler house that both kept the oil warm and drove the steam pumping engines in two separate pump houses. I only saw the main Worthington pump house but not the Hall's pump house. This shows three boilers that are essentially land based Scotch marine boilers.

Approaching the Erskine Bridge along the canal towpath, now a cycle path (NCN 7)

The concrete base of one of the buildings of the depot appears in the foreground. Just beyond the line of trees in the middle distance is the course of the dismantled Lanarkshire and Dumbarton railway line (see, for example, Image). Just beyond that is the Forth and Clyde Canal (see the map).

Runs into the Freelands area of Old Kilpatrick.

The area occupied by the depot – http://www.geograph.org.uk/snippet/6052 and Image – is to the left. The line of trees to the right of the path conceals the course of a Image Just beyond that is the Image The Erskine Bridge is prominent in the background.

The official name of this area is Antonine Park, but it is still known generally as "the new estate", despite now being around fifteen years old.