Urban canal

This is part of the Forth and Clyde Canal as it meanders through Maryhill. 

It got me thinking that these industrial canals were never really pleasurable places the way they are now. I'm sure this will be the same the UK over. 

Canals were places of work, dirty places, hectic places. This one goes right through the centre of industrial Glasgow.

I was saying to a friend the other night the very same thing about the River Clyde. Unlike many rivers that are used for leisure, the Clyde struggles with the concept. I think we are two generations away from it being a place of fun. Too many men lost lives; left behind families to sail to the USA during the Depression; and worked in awful conditions making ships for the world; for it to be a place of fun.

Who knows.