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Memories of the Union canal / any information about it

Laura Maguire (guest) 1241535772|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion General discussion / Canal life » Memories of the Union canal / any information about it

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.

Re: What happened to the old canal boat?

RobWmn 1230115430|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion General discussion / Canal life » What happened to the old canal boat?

I received this message through the private message system and thought others might be interested…

………..
Hi there!

I'm …, and I live near the Edinburgh Union Canal. I was emailing an American friend of mine about the boat they found in the canal in 2004 (I think). I came across this page, and you wondering about the boat. Well, bad news about the boat, unlike what the other guy said "it is still there", well, it's not.

The boat was destroyed, I seen it happening, they had 4 skips, and using chainsaws to take the boat apart. Not a good thing to see! They done this because it was simply too big! There weren't any museums that could hold such a large thing, and it was a danger to boats in the area if they had kept it in the canal. It was also in the way of the housing development that is now there.

Well, sorry you had to hear like this!

……………

Thanks for the message. I have had a separate and independent confirmation of this too. Personally I'm sorry it wasn't put on the bank as an object of interest.

Cormorant or shag?

RobWmn 1226359726|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion General discussion / Canal life » Cormorant or shag?

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

BW info

RobWmn 1220286572|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion Hidden / Per page discussions » Water quality

Geetam:
I do have a contact in BW I'm advised we should ask about this, but not the time to do it. If you have the time…

isn't there more recent monitoring data?

geetam 1218705930|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion Hidden / Per page discussions » Water quality

Doesn't BW monitor water quality?
Maybe they do not monitor to the same level of detail as SEPA does, but they should be managing the water quality to some extend.
Maybe they do not want to publish the results… but I would expect the Union Canal to be quite good, so I don't think there is anything they should be ashamed of.

Re: George Meikle Kemp

RobWmn 1214643315|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion General discussion / Canal life » George Meikle Kemp

Do we know where this happened at Fountainbridge?

George Meikle Kemp

renata4711 1214631910|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion General discussion / Canal life » George Meikle Kemp

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

Re: What happened to the old canal boat?

geetam 1214570860|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion General discussion / Canal life » What happened to the old canal boat?

AFAIK it is still there. I think it was not moved, but covered up again to preserve it after the archaeologists did their work.

Margins and links

RobWmn 1213733346|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion Hidden / Per page discussions » Case Studies Wine School

I've added a small section of code into your page to give it some margins, and changed the web addresses into links for you. I'm now going to check that the page is linked from the events page, and if it isn't I'll add that in too. Hope that's helpful.

What happened to the old canal boat?

RobWmn 1213636521|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion General discussion / Canal life » What happened to the old canal boat?

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

RobWmn 1213636200|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion General discussion / Canal life » Magnetic gravel

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)

RobWmn 1213570357|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion General discussion / Canal life » What's that aircraft doing? (15June08)

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

RobWmn 1212767628|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion General discussion / This website » News about website design

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?

RobWmn 1212621910|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion General discussion / This website » So what do you think?

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.