When it comes to rivers, Glasgow’s Molendinar Burn is every bit as important to the history of the city as the mighty Clyde.

It was the site of the settlement that grew to become the kernel of Glasgow, and where St Mungo founded his church in the 6th Century. It was later used to power the growing town’s mills. It flows from Hogganfield Loch in the north-east of Glasgow, down to the Clyde.

It was mostly covered over in the 1870s, by what is now Wishart Street, but in the 1960s it still flowed through Dennistoun, offering local kids the chance fish for baggie minnows, fall in and get their feet wet.

By 1963, as local housing developments expanded, the burn was buried and piped, affording these local kids a great elevated concrete pathway along which to skip.

A small stretch of the uncovered burn can still be seen beside the old Great Eastern Hotel.

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