IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Watt Place, ML5 1EZ

The picture was taken from the pavement on the northern side of Glasgow Road (as the road is called from about this point eastward), near a bus stop (I paused at the bus stop to consult my street atlas, to decide where to head next). The area of woodland in the background is depicted on the map; beyond it, over the brow of the hill, is the Drumpellier estate.

Looking north showing position of Postbox No. G69 1531.

Postbox No. G69 1531. See Image] for context.

The entrance road to the Drumpellier Lawns housing estate. National Cycle Route 75 goes through the estate then along the path starting at the blue sign to the Monkland Canal tow path.

National Cycle Route 75 follows the towpath to this point and then turns left to go through a housing estate and then Bargeddie. The canal stops a short distance further on. The rest of the canal to Port Dundas was converted to a culvert in the 1970s and most of it is now under the M8 motorway. Drumpellier Colliery Pits 3&4 were on the other side of the canal.

Here, on the northern side of Glasgow Road, what appear to be sections of a tunnel or large pipeline have been installed in several groups on the grass verge. See Image, an earlier photograph, which provides more context. The course of Drumpellier Golf Club is located behind the stone wall in the background. I was unable to find out anything more about these objects. However, I am grateful to a fellow contributor – http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/10850 – who tells me that they were installed here in the 1970s, on the former route of the road, and that "the existing dual carriageway follows the old Baillieston – Langloan tramway (private line), and the current route of the (A89) road was straightened by cutting into the line of the tramway at this bend" (thanks again for the information).

For a closer look at the nearest group, and for further information, see Image