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  £1m to divert flood risk burn in city - Evening Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A GLASGOW burn is to be diverted as part of a £1million project to stop flooding in the east end.
Scottish Water bosses will reroute the underground Molendinar Burn to save parts of the city where people had to be rescued by boats after flash floods two years ago.
During the flooding of 2002, rainwater poured into the burn, causing it to gush into the streets of Dennistoun.
www.eveningtimes.co.uk /print/news/5033128.shtml   (339 words)

  
 TIMESPAST: The Molendinar Burn, Dennistoun, 1963 - Evening Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The burn is where St Kentigern established his Christian community in the 6th Century, the precursor to the Cathedral that dominates the city's High Street.
The Burn, which rises from Hogganfield Loch, still flows down to the Clyde today, but has long been buried beneath the streets of Glasgow.
In 1963, it was piped through the back courts of Dennistoun, giving these kids a concrete snake to play on.
ww1.eveningtimes.co.uk /lo/features/7019096.html   (88 words)

  
 TheGlasgowStory: Glasgow Cathedral
The Molendinar was bridged at this spot in medieval times, and the bridge was also sometimes known as the East Brig.
The road led west up "Hangman's Brae" to the Cathedral - the hill got its name as condemned men were taken along it on their way to the gallows, which were set up in the ruins of the old Bishop's Palace from 1784 until 1814.
The name Molendinar is probably derived from the Latin molendinarius, meaning "belonging to a mill", and it once provided the water power for both the Town's Mill and the Sub Dean's Mill.
www.theglasgowstory.com /image.php?inum=TGSA04820   (195 words)

  
 TheGlasgowStory: Molendinar Burn
This engraving by Robert Paul is identified as Glasgow Academy [Foulis Academy] July 1769, and shows an unusual view of the Molendinar Burn.
This small stream is a tributary of the Clyde and a number of mills were built on its banks to meet the growing city's needs for ground meal and flour.
On the east bank of the Molendinar in this image is the Fir Park and opposite is the bottom of the Dean of Glasgow's Garden with a gate allowing access to the burn.
www.theglasgowstory.com /image.php?inum=TGSA01070   (160 words)

  
 Did You Know? - Bridge of Sighs
Glasgow's "Bridge of Sighs" originally crossed the Molendinar Burn from the Cathedral to the Necropolis, the first and most famous of Glasgow's cemeteries (inspired by the Père Lachaise graveyard in Paris).
The bridge was built around 1833 to a design by James Hamilton, son of David Hamilton who was one of Glasgow's leading architects in the early part of the 19th century.
The Molendinar (beside which St Mungo had founded his first church around 540AD) was covered by a culvert 40 years after the bridge had been built, but it was still a useful connection over the high ravine.
www.rampantscotland.com /know/blknow_sighs.htm   (191 words)

  
 About Glasgow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In Glasgow, he established his Christian church on the banks of the Molendinar Burn, a tributary of the Clyde, where Glasgow Cathedral now stands.
Legend has it St Mungo performed four miracles in Glasgow, commemorated on the City of Glasgow’s coat of arms, depicting a tree with a bird perched on its branches and a salmon and a bell on either side.
When Mungo died on 13 January 603, he was buried in his own church, close to the spot where the only two known Glasgow martyrs of the Reformation were later burned at the stake.
www.glaswegian.us /glasgow.htm   (285 words)

  
 Molendinar: about   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
I thought that it was about time I explained a wee bit about Molendinar.
That got me on to the idea of looking for the Molendinar Burn, something familiar in a strange world.
It was from the starting point of that character that I began writing Molendinar.
www.molendinar.com /2005/10/about.html   (300 words)

  
 Molendinar park - PROJECT: News: 08 June 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
On the east bank of the Molendinar in this image is the Fir Park and opposite is the bottom of the Dean of Glasgow's Garden with a gate allowing access to
RIBA Client of the Year— Molendinar Park Housing Association for Graham Square in Glasgow, Scotland.
Molendinar Park Housing Association Ltd, 3 Graham Square G31 1AD, Glasgow, 01415645256.
surfform.com /?q=molendinar-park   (407 words)

  
 Gold Coast City Council - Molendinar
George Hope had a farm that he called ‘Molendinar Burn’ after a stream that once flowed through Glasgow, his place of birth.
In 1891 a railway station was built on Hope’s land and named Molendinar Station.
The Molendinar Industrial Estate, located south-west of Southport, was a Queensland State Government project supported by the local councils, with the first stage of development undertaken around 1969.
www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au /t_standard.aspx?pid=1053   (103 words)

  
 History of Glasgow Green
Due to its proximity to the River Clyde, women of the East End of the city used the area, including the local wash-house and drying green, for washing and bleaching linen.
The present layout was created between 1817 and 1826 when much of the land which was subject to frequent flooding was levelled and drained and the Camlachie and Molendinar burns channelled underground.
The Molendinar Burn is traditionally believed to be where St. Mungo baptised Christian converts in the sixth century.
www.glasgow.gov.uk /en/AboutGlasgow/History/glasgowgreenhistory.htm   (376 words)

  
 Scotland Glasgow hotels and travel guide
The city's name is said to derive from the Celtic Glas-cu, which loosely translates as "the dear, green place" - a tag that the tourist board are keen to exploit as an antidote to the sooty images of popular imagination.
It is generally agreed that the first settlers arrived in the sixth century to join Christian missionary Kentigern - later to become St Mungo - in his newly founded monastery on the banks of the tiny Molendinar Burn.
William the Lionheart gave the town an official charter in 1175, after which it continued to grow in importance, peaking in the mid-fifteenth century when the university was founded on Kentigern's site - the second in Scotland after St Andrews.
www.starvogue.com /world-travel-guide/Scotland/Glasgow.html   (483 words)

  
 Glasgow Cathedral | Museum/Attraction Review | Glasgow | Frommers.com
The Laigh Kirk (lower church), whose vaulted crypt is said to be one of the finest in Europe, also holds St. Mungo's tomb, where a light always burns.
For one of the best views of the cathedral and the city, too, for that matter, cross the ravine (through which the Molendinar Burn once ran before being diverted underground) into the Central Necropolis.
Built on a proud hill and dominated by a statue of John Knox, this graveyard (patterned in part on the famous Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris) was opened in the 1830s.
www.frommers.com /destinations/glasgow/A21965.html   (380 words)

  
 Spens History - pafn61 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The city's name is said toderive from the Celtic Glas-cu, which loosely translates as "the dear,green place" a tag that the tourist board are keen to exploit as anantidote to the sooty images of popular imagination.
It is generallyagreed that the first settlers arrived in the sixth century to joinChristian missionary Kentigern later to become St Mungo in his newlyfounded monastery on the banks of the tiny Molendinar Burn.
William the Lionheart gave the town an official charter in 1175, afterwhich it continued to grow in importance, peaking in the mid-fifteenthcentury when the university was founded on Kentigern's site the second inScotland after St Andrews.
www.nathanielspens.com /pafn61.htm   (443 words)

  
 Podcast.net - The Podcast Directory
A talk about who I am, where I'm from, what i want to do for the Molendinar burn and I almost explain why too.
Mungo on the Molendinar: The first instalment of Mungo's weekly podcast.
He ponders what happened to the Molendinar Burn and Glasgow in the years since he left.
www.podcast.net /show/44055   (109 words)

  
 Molendinar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The path leads over the Burn and through a wee bit of woodland and emerges onto the Drygate.
It's not the end of the world but it's still a bit shite mind you because it means that all the good done by the project will make no difference to the level of fear in the city as a whole.
While Molendinar will be a better place to live; in order for it to exist other places will be worse.
www.molendinar.com   (3426 words)

  
 Glasgow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art is located beside Glasgow Cathedral (built on the site of St Mungo's 6th century church beside the Molendinar Burn and the future City of Glasgow) and across the road from Glasgow's oldest dwelling house, the Provand's Lordship.
Around the square are other statues of people, including Robert Burns, who have connections with the city.
During the Christmas period the square is ablaze with its decorations while, during the hottest part of the summer, office workers flock to the benches in a desperate bid to soak up some sunlight.
www.vcmame.net /chrissie/glasgow/glasgow.html   (3628 words)

  
 Roystonhill Spire & Park Project - History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
After visiting other successful projects around the city, local people formed a plan together with organisations such as Fablevision and Glasgow Building Preservation Trust, to create a project which would restore the spire as the centrepiece to a park development.
The Molendinar Burn, the historic stream around which the city was built, is the focus of a similar project in the nearby Blackhill area.
Further information on both the Spire and the Molendinar Burn Project will be available on this website soon.
www.brocweb.com /spire/history.html   (457 words)

  
 Glasgow Guide: Glasgow Info: Historical Beginnings
St Kentigern's other name, St Mungo, is derived from the Gaelic word Munghu "dear one", which is believed to have been bestowed upon him by St Serf as a special sign of the regard which the elderly saint had for his pupil.
In 543, St Kentigern built a church on the banks of the Molendinar burn - a tributary of the River Clyde - where Glasgow Cathedral now stands.
St Kentigern had, at one time, been driven out of Glasgow by a pagan prince and the young saint took refuge in Wales, where he founded a bishopric.
www.glasgowguide.co.uk /info-history1.html   (1132 words)

  
 ROYSTON ROAD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Spire Park at Royston Hill and Molendinar Park at Blackhill punctuate the area at strategic landmark locations.
A park at Blackhill on the banks of the Molendinar burn where the city of glasgow was first built.
The Spire park is focused around the remaining spire of a church that once stood at this high point of the city.
www.roystonroadproject.org /main_menu_page.htm   (439 words)

  
 Glasgow - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
However, it is also recorded that the King of Strathclyde, Rhydderch Hael, welcomed Saint Kentigern, and procured his consecration as bishop, which took place about 540.
The main entrance is approached by a bridge over what was the Molendinar Burn towards an impressive set of classical mausolea.
The bridge, designed by James Hamilton, is known as the Bridge of Sighs because it formed the route of funeral processions.
www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Glasgow   (6550 words)

  
 Glasgow Scotland - Cathedral Precinct
Glasgow's fine mediaeval cathedral is situated well away from the present day city centre.
It was founded in ancient times in the high ground above the old town, alongside the Molendinar Burn in Townhead.
The city's ancient cathedral is dedicated to Glasgow's patron saint, St Mungo (or Kentigern) who established a church on the site at the beginning of the 7th century and was buried there around the year 612.
www.scotcities.com /townhead.htm   (990 words)

  
 Hidden Glasgow Forums :: View topic - Molendinar Burn
Theres a small stream or burn beside the great eastern hotel on Duke Street is this the Molendinar Burn?
Yes, this is the Molendinar Burn, which runs from Hogganfield Loch, through Alexandra Park, down Wishart Street between the Cathedral and the Necropolis, crosses Duke Street, goes under Glasgow Green (where it merges with the Camlachie Burn) and flows into the Clyde just south of the High Court buildings.
I've been toying with the idea of dowsing the Molendinar (and others).
www.hiddenglasgow.com /forums/viewtopic.php?p=937   (819 words)

  
 Introduction to Public Health And Housing
Source 3A is a photograph of boys playing by the Molendinar Burn, Glasgow, around 1890.
How useful is Source 3A for investigating the causes of poor health in Scotland in the late nineteenth century?
Photograph of boys beside the Molendinar Burn, Glasgow
www.scan.org.uk /education/housing/source3a.html   (50 words)

  
 Mr. David Dale's grand dinner under difficulties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
At length the Monkland Canal burst its banks, and like a mighty avalanche the waters came thundering down by the Molendinar Burn, carrying all before it, and filling the low-lying districts of the city in Gallowgate, Saltmarket, Bridgegate, and under portions of St. Andrew’s Square with a muddy stream.
The Camlachie Burn also, which ran close by Mr.
Dale’s house, rose to an unusual height, and burst with a fearful crash into Mr.
www.electricscotland.com /history/glasgow/anec148.htm   (525 words)

  
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St Kentigern settled in Glasgow in 543AD following exile from Culross, where his monastic brothers had grown jealous of his miracle powers.
In Glasgow, he established his Christian church on the banks of the Molendinar burn.
Such was his popularity, the people named him Mungo, meaning "dear one".
www.macalester.edu /courses/GEOG61/wdouglas/history.html   (895 words)

  
 Salute to Adventurers eBook
There lived an armourer in the Gallowgate, one Weir, with whom I began to spend my leisure.
There was an alley by the Molendinar Burn, close to the archery butts, where he would let me practise at a mark with guns from his store.
Soon to my delight I found that here was a weapon with which I need fear few rivals.
www.bookrags.com /ebooks/10046/19.html   (527 words)

  
 Rache An Meine Ex | 614317   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Most of the Queen and Governor General (who used their position as a result of sounding more like pop music.
The PDRY was the Molendinar Burn towards an impressive heritage of Victorian architecture, saved from 1950s urban renewal projects.
The term PC is also bought and sold to Everton.
racheanmnx.marseillenetwork.org   (1864 words)

  
 Scottish Pubs - past and present of Scottish Beers & Brewing in Scotland
If you fancy a pint, you’re in very good company.
Beer was first brewed in Scotland by Glasgow’s Patron Saint, St. Mungo in 543AD with water from the Molendinar Burn and.....
For the full low down on Scottish beer - the excellent to the downright eccentric - the background, the pubs and everything in between select from the menu on the right.
www.theportal.co.uk /scotbeers/scotbeer.htm   (95 words)

  
 BJCP Study Group Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Their word for malt is öl which is the root for the modern word ale.
St. Mungo establishes his monastic community in present-day Glasgow in 543 and brewed with water of the Molendinar Burn, on the site where the Glasgow Cathedral would be built in 1136.
Beer was made without hops at this time and brewing was done in the cooler months.
www.cascadebrewersguild.org /studygroup/sgnotesweek02.asp   (3894 words)

  
 Saint Mungo's Church - Who is Saint Mungo?
He arrived in Glasgow around 540 and was consecrated Bishop of Strathclyde by an Irish bishop.
Glasgow's Cathedral along the Molendinar Burn is the fourth to be built on the site of Mungo's seventh century wooden church.
Mungo did not, according to tradition, select the church's site himself.
www.saintmungo.org /stmungo.html   (539 words)

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