Talk:River Kelvin

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the river Kelvin flowed through genteel Lady Campbels estate , but was hidden from view behind a very high brick wall which encased the industrialised gasworks and blackening works that fronted Lochgilp Street in the Butni. Before cutting through the estate it passed under a bridge which had on one one side the road leading to Maryhill Park and on the other side was the road to Dawshome, A paper mill was producing paper on the far side of the bridge and spewing its horrific slimy waste into the stream.

We all like to get high, but come on now.

Isn't the Great Western Bridge called the Kelvin Bridge? 86.4.222.140 23:50, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

If you don't mind I'll be attempting a copy edit on this over the next few days. The Kelvin is important and deserves an entry here but at least one of the statements leave folks guessing. For example; citing it as Glasgow's second river doesn't really say much does it? Second in relation to what? Length? Trade? Recreation? My apologies for removing the line The Kelvin temperature scale, named after its creator Lord Kelvin, therefore derives its name from this very river. There's a few things I would suggest would improve this entry greatly - first of all a fuller account of the river's importance to the city historically and currently. It would be good if how it came to be named 'Kelvin' could be ascertained (Picts?). And more citations for the statements being made - I will endeavour to do what I can in the next few days/weeks. My apologies if I've hurt anyone's feelings but the Kelvin should have a great entry here and someone has made a damned good go at making one - but it falls just short of what I think folks would expect here. OzScot (talk) 16:10, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

I've done a substantial re-write of the intro, condensing it and making it as succinct as possible. I started on the fauna paragraph but have called a halt there as I look for more resources and citations. I removed the 'dubious' citation beside Carrion Crow as I know these are not only common to the Kelvin, they are common to the city as a whole and finding a reference to that fact should be simple. Mink is one which is more problematic as they are not found there naturally - only escapees live on the banks of the Kelvin and it is doubtful if they have survived from one season to the next so if there's a dubious citation needed I would place it there. Hope all are agreeable with the shape it's taking now? OzScot (talk) 06:45, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm concerned at the re-quoting of an old phrase regarding the source of this river, i.e. 'It rises at Dullatur bog near the village of Kelvinhead' A walk in the area will make a nonsense of this spurious claim. The burn rises in the old lands of Ruchill which is north of the Kilsyth - Banknock road. It then flows from this high ground down to Dullatur Bog. Even more nonsensical is the claim made by Alex Matheson, writer of the 1999 book - 'Glasgow's Other River, Exploring the Kelvin' in which he claims the source of the Kelvin is at Wyndford Lock on the Forth & Clyde canal where for 4km he mistook the Bonny Water for the Kelvin (even though it was flowing the 'wrong' way). Pepole really should get their facts right before committing them to screen or print. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smur (talk • contribs) 19:56, 24 January 2010 (UTC)