The Union Canal, Edinburgh - new forum threads

Memories of the Union canal / any information about it

Tue, 05 May 2009 15:02:52 +0000

Hello =-).

My name is Laura and I am posting this on behalf of Re-Union (www.re-union.org.uk/) [which some of you will know already]. I am currently working for them for the next few weeks as part of my Community Education degree. Along with two volunteers I am gathering information about the union canal, along with photographs, to add to a scrap book that will be shown to groups who come on board the boat/used for purposes of that kind. I am posting this in the hope that if anyone has any photos of the Union canal that we can use that you will Email them to me and give permission for Re-Union to use them in the scrap book. I am also appealing for any electronic information or points of interest you have about the canal. At the moment I can find a lot of history, but less about the environment around the canal (trees and birds and all the pretty ecology).

I am also personally interested in adding people's memories of the canal to the scrapbook. If you would like to Email me your favourite memory of the canal, along with your first name and where you're from, or if you're a local, something along those lines, that would be very helpful. Then I can add your favourite memory of the canal to the scrapbook and it will be read by community groups who use the Re-Union canal boat.

You can contact me at moc.liamelgoog|eriugamrual#moc.liamelgoog|eriugamrual or ku.gro.noinu-er|ybba#ku.gro.noinu-er|ybba, or alternatively you can call us on the number advertised on the website.

Thanks for your time,

Laura.

Cormorant or shag?

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:28:46 +0000

Does anyone know which? See photos on the wildlife page.

George Meikle Kemp

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:45:10 +0000

Is anyone interested in planning and creating an artwork in memory of George Meikle Kemp in Edinburgh Canal Quarter?
renata4711

What happened to the old canal boat?

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:15:21 +0000

When the major work on the canal was taking place beside the bridge at Viewforth, back in 2004, an old barge was discovered. There's a press article about the find here. Does anyone know more about the final theories about this barge, and about whether it was eventually broken up?

Magnetic gravel

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:10:00 +0000

While we were walking along the canal this afternoon one of my children was using a magnet to find 'treasure' - such as old nails and the like.

Something surprising happened when we reached the wide gravel path on the west side of the Leamington Lift Bridge (see place on Google maps) - the gravel stuck to the magnet. This happened all the way between the Leamington Bridge and the Viewforth Bridge (we didn't try elsewhere). I'd love to hear theories about why this might be.

What's that aircraft doing? (15June08)

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:52:37 +0000

This isn't really about the canal, but I just thought that other people might have been wondering what was going on with the old aircraft flying around and around over Edinburgh today.

There's some information here, which led me to the information here and there's a photo someone took today here.

It looks like it's an old DC-3 'Dakota' taking passengers for a final trip before this becomes disallowed (going only on the information given on these pages).

News about website design

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:53:48 +0000

I've been doing some work on trying to make sure that the website looks OK on different computers. There's a bit of a problem with the placing of images in the header for the page. On some computers (browsers) they overlap the navigation bars. Anyone good with CSS coding?

So what do you think?

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:25:10 +0000

Hi All
I hope you like this website. If you don't, and you think it could be better, do some work on it. It's pretty easy to modify, and I'm very happy to help.