The piping-in of Molendinar Burn at Dennistoun in 1963 provided a new playpark for local kids.
Rather than going fishing for baggie-minnows or trying to dam the polluted waterway, they could skip along the top of the concrete pipe – literally walking on water.
The burn was the birthplace of Glasgow. St Mungo founded his church by its banks in the 6th century and it was later used to power the town's mills.
Its source is Frankfield Loch in the north-east of the city; then it flows through Hogganfield Loch and into the Clyde. Much of it was covered over in the 1870s, by what is now Wishart Street.
The point where it flowed into the Clyde caused silting, which allowed a ford to be made at the Saltmarket.
A small part of it is still uncovered beside the old Great Eastern Hotel in Duke Street.
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