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scallopboy · Last edited by scallopboy on Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:45 pm; edited 1 time in total

The Molindiner Burn is pretty well known due to its close proximity to the cathedral and at one time being the bath and drinking water of the well-to-do of Glasgow. The Camlachie Burn is not so well known but it was the dividing line for the high and low greens in Glasgow Green before it was culverted. Only a small section of the Molindiner remains visible to the side of the Great Eastern Hotel but some larger stretches of the Camlachie Burn remain visible.

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ex-tobester · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject:

A few pics of the burn itself, not much to see, but we had a good day.

scallopboy · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:43 pm Post subject: Camlachie Burn stoat aboot

Starting off from Glasgow Green and heading east the first sight of the Camlachie Burn above ground is at Fordneuk Street in the Mile End Quarter. The Google Earth photos shows the bits you can see in blue and the bits in red are a rough guess of where it might be underground. The yellow line shows the line of Alma Street where there was a sound of running water from the culverts, but this is more than likely just sewerage and the true line of the burn is under where the red line is.

Camlachie burn at Fordneuk Street

The next time the burn reappears is at Fielden Street

It then disappears back underground and heads towards Alma Street

There is no visible sight of the burn in Alma Street, but an ear to the ground over a culvert and you can clearly hear the sound of quite fast-flowing water. There is a strip of land near to Alma Street that heads towards the Forge that is undeveloped and it seems closer to where the tracing of the old line of the burn ran in the 1970's map.

The burn then goes underneath the Gallowgate and the extension to The Forge retail Park. The old map is from a 1970's Glasgow A-Z which shows the site before the Forge was developed and indicates that a fair portion of the burn was culverted when the site was developed. The red line is a best guess of where the burn would have run assuming its course hadn't been changed.

The Google Earth photo shows the line of the Camlachie Burn as it flows towards the boundary wall of the old chemical works that are now demolished. Although it is possible to get into these works, to get a close up view, we hardy UGers didn't go in that day.

The line of the burn is just on the other side of the fence taken from the site of the electricity pylon that is marked on the original map.

There is another bit of the Camlachie Burn further east of Rigby Street that we left for another day

Photo of the Camlachie Burn on derelict land east of Rigby Street

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cybers · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 4:09 pm Post subject:

as an original Barrowfield kid (Dalserf Street) we used to play in this foul burn behind Vinegarhill street also remember it surfaced for a short distance around Mountainblue Street as it had to be negotiated to gain entry to the MB bar factory yard.
From Vinegarhill street it passed between what used to be a sawdust factory (Best Description) and a cooperage yard along past the south of Daltons Scrap yard and finished as best memory serves me here to the south east of Parkhead Forge.

Borrowed from and Respect to Big Eck on this one...

On the days we never went EXPLORING in the orange mud of the burn (After all there was just so many beatings a week yir mammy could dish oot)
We played football on the old ash pitch of Vinegarhill...

Ahh nostalgia indeed .....wish i had been there with you guys.

catdubh · Buttered roll Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Posts: 1

i also had a few clips round the ear for playing in this burn.there is a decent stretch still open running through springboig from hollowglen rd to greenfield rd,it then carries on to springboig rd but this section is fenced off,from there it goes underground running the length of springboig avenue before coming out again at the eastern end of the street